THE

PROPHECY OF EZECHIEL.

Chapter 1

1 Now it came to pass in the thirtieth
year, in the fourth month, on the
fifth day of the month, when I was in the
midst of the captives by the river
Chobar, the heavens were opened, and I saw
the visions of God.

2 On the fifth day of the month, the
same was the fifth year of the captivity
of king Joachin,

3 The word of the Lord came to Ezechiel
the priest the son of Bud in the land of
the Chaldeans, by the river Chobar: and
the hand of the Lord was there upon
him.

4 And I saw, and behold a whirlwind
came out of the north: and a great cloud,
and a fire infolding it, and brightness
was about it: and out of the midst
thereof, that is, out of the midst of the
fire, as it were the resemblance of amber:

5 And in the midst thereof the likeness
of four living creatures: and this was
their appearance: there was the likeness
of a man in them.

6 Every one had four faces, and every
one four wings.

7 Their feet were straight feet, and the
sole of their foot was like the sole of a
calf's foot, and they sparkled like the
appearance of glowing brass.

8 And they had the hands of a man under
their wings on their four sides: and they
bad faces, and wings on the four sides,

9 And the wings of one were joined to
the wings of another. They turned not
when they went: but every one went
straight forward.

10 And as for the likeness of their faces:
there was the face of a man, and the face
of a lion on the right side of all the four:
and the face of an ox, on the left side of
all the four: and the face of an eagle
over all the four.

11 And their faces, and their wings were
stretched upward: two wings of every
one were joined, and two covered their
bodies:

12 And every one of them went straight
forward: whither the impulse of the
spirit was to go, thither they went: and
they turned not when they went.

13 And as for the likeness of the living
creatures, their appearance was like that
of burning coals of fire, and like the
appearance of lamps. This was the vision
running to and fro in the midst of the
living creatures, a bright fire, and
lightning going forth from the fire.

14 And the living creatures ran and
returned like flashes of lightning.

15 Now as I beheld the living creatures,
there appeared upon the earth by the
living creatures one wheel with four
faces.

16 And the appearance of the wheels,
and the work of them was like the
appearance of the sea: and the four had
all one likeness: and their appearance
and their work was as it were a wheel in
the midst of a wheel.

17 When they went, they went by their
four parts: and they turned not when
they went.

18 The wheels had also a size, and a
height, and a dreadful appearance: and
the whole body was full of eyes round
about all the four.

19 And when the living creatures went,
the wheels also went together by them:
and when the living creatures were lifted
up from the earth, the wheels also were
lifted up with them.

20 Whithersoever the spirit went,
thither as the spirit went the wheels also
were lifted up withal, and followed it:
for the spirit of life was in the wheels.

21 When those went these went, and
when those stood these stood, and when
those were lifted up from the earth, the
wheels also were lifted up together, and
followed them: for the spirit of life was
in the wheels.

22 And over the heads of the living
creatures was the likeness of the firmament,
as the appearance of crystal terrible to
behold, and stretched out over
their heads above.

23 And under the firmament were their
wings straight, the one toward the other,
every one with two wings covered his
body, and the other was covered in like
manner.

24 And I heard the noise of their wings,
like the noise of many waters, as it were
the voice of the most high God: when
they walked, it was like the voice of a
multitude, like the noise of an army, and
when they stood, their wings were let
down.

25 For when a voice came from above
the firmament, that was over their heads,
they stood, and let down their wings.

26 And above the firmament that was
over their heads, was the likeness of a
throne, as the appearance of the
sapphire stone, and upon the likeness of the
throne, was a likeness as of the appearance
of a man above upon it.

27 And I saw as it were the resemblance
of amber as the appearance of fire within
it round about: from his loins and
upward, and from his loins downward, I saw
as it were the resemblance of fire shining
round about.

28 As the appearance of the rainbow
when it is in a cloud on a rainy day: this
was the appearance of the brightness
round about.

Chapter 2

1 This was the vision of the likeness
of the glory of the Lord. And I saw,
and I fell upon my face, and I heard the
voice of one that spoke. And he said to
me: Son of man, stand upon thy feet,
and I will speak to thee.

2 And the spirit entered into me after
that he spoke to me, and he set me upon
my feet: and I heard him speaking to
me,

3 And saying: Son of man, I send thee
to the children of Israel, to a rebellious
people, that hath revolted from me, they,
and their fathers, have transgressed my
covenant even unto this day.

4 And they to whom I send thee are
children of a hard face, and of an
obstinate heart: and thou shalt say to them:
Thus saith the Lord God:

5 If so be they at least will hear, and if
so be they will forbear, for they are a
provoking house: and they shall know
that there hath been a prophet in the
midst of them.

6 And thou, O son of man, fear not,
neither be thou afraid of their words: for
thou art among unbelievers and destroyers,
and thou dwellest with scorpions.
Fear not their words, neither be thou
dismayed at their looks: for they are a
provoking house.

7 And thou shalt speak my words to
them, if perhaps they will hear, and
forbear: for they provoke me to anger.

8 But thou, O son of man, hear all that
I say to thee: and do not thou provoke
me, as that house provoketh me: open
thy mouth, and eat what I give thee.

9 And I looked, and behold, a hand was
sent to me, wherein was a book rolled
up: and he spread it before me, and it
was written within and without: and
there were written in it lamentations,
and canticles, and woe.

Chapter 3

1 And he said to me: Son of man, eat
all that thou shalt find: eat this
book, and go speak to the children of
Israel.

2 And I opened my mouth, and he
caused me to eat that book :

3 And he said to me: Son of man, thy
belly shall eat, and thy bowels shall be
filled with this book, which I give thee.
And I did eat it: and it was sweet as
honey in my mouth.

4 And he said to me: Son of man, go to
the house of Israel, and thou shalt speak
my words to them.

5 For thou art not sent to a people of
a profound speech, and of an unknown
tongue, but to the house of Israel:

6 Nor to many nations of a strange
speech, and of an unknown tongue,
whose words thou canst not understand:
and if thou wert sent to them, they would
hearken to thee.

7 But the house of Israel will not
hearken to thee: because they will not hearken
to me: for all the house of Israel are of
a hard forehead and an obstinate heart.

8 Behold I have made thy face stronger
than their faces: and thy forehead harder
than their foreheads.

9 I have made thy face like an adamant
and like flint: fear them not, neither be
thou dismayed at their presence: for
they are a provoking house.

10 And he said to me: Son of man,
receive in thy heart, and hear with thy
ears, all the words that I speak to thee:

11 And go get thee in to them of the
captivity, to the children of thy people,
and thou shalt speak to them, and shalt
say to them: Thus saith the Lord: If so
be they will hear and will forbear.

12 And the spirit took me up, and I
heard behind me the voice of a great
commotion, saying: Blessed be the glory
of the Lord, from his place.

13 And the noise of the wings of the
living creatures striking one against
another, and the noise of the wheels following
the living creatures, and the noise of
a great commotion.

14 The spirit also lifted me, and took
me up: and I went away in bitterness in
the indignation of my spirit: for the
hand of the Lord was with me, strengthening
me.

15 And I came to them of the captivity,
to the heap of new corn, to them that
dwelt by the river Chobar, and I sat
where they sat: and I remained there
seven days mourning in the midst of
them.

16 And at the end of seven days the
word of the Lord came to me, saying:

17 Son of man, I have made thee a
watchman to the house of Israel: and
thou shalt hear the word out of my
mouth, and shalt tell it them from me.

18 If, when I say to the wicked, Thou
shalt surely die: thou declare it not to
him, nor speak to him, that he may be
converted from his wicked way, and live:
the same wicked man shall die in his
iniquity, but I will require his blood at
thy hand.

19 But if thou give warning to the wicked,
and he be not converted from his
wickedness, and from his evil way: he
indeed shall die in his iniquity, but thou
hast delivered thy soul.

20 Moreover if the just man shall turn
away from his justice, and shall commit
iniquity: I will lay a stumblingblock
before him, he shall die, because thou hast
not given him warning: he shall die in
his sin, and his justices which he hath
done, shall not be remembered: but I
will require his blood at thy hand.

21 But if thou warn the just man, that
the just may not sin, and he doth not sin:
living he shall live, because thou hast
warned him, and thou hast delivered thy
soul.

22 And the hand of the Lord was upon
me, and he said to me: Rise and go forth
into the plain, and there I will speak to
thee.

23 And I rose up, and went forth into
the plain: and behold the glory of the
Lord stood there, like the glory which
I saw by the river Chobar: and I fell
upon my face.

24 And the spirit entered into me, and
set me upon my feet: and he spoke to
me, and said to me: Go in; and shut
thyself up in the midst of thy house.

25 And thou, O son of man, behold they
shall put bands upon thee, and they shall
bind thee with them: and thou shalt not
go forth from the midst of them.

26 And I will make thy tongue stick fast
to the roof of thy mouth, and thou shalt
be dumb, and not as a man that reproveth:
because they are a provoking house.

27 But when I shall speak to thee, I will
open thy mouth, and thou shalt say to
them: Thus saith the Lord God: He that
heareth, let him hear: and he that
forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a
provoking house.

Chapter 4

1 And thou, O son of man, take thee a
tile, and lay it before thee: and
draw upon it the plan of the city of
Jerusalem.

2 And lay siege against it, and build forts,
and cast up a mount, and set a camp
against it, and place battering rams round
about it.

3 And take unto thee an iron pan, and
set it for a wall of iron between thee and
the city: and set thy face resolutely
against it, and it shall be besieged, and
thou shalt lay siege against it: it is a
sign to the house of Israel.

4 And thou shalt sleep upon thy left
side, and shalt lay the iniquities of the
house of Israel upon it, according to the
number of the days that thou shalt sleep
upon it, and thou shalt take upon thee
their iniquity.

5 And I have laid upon thee the years of
their iniquity, according to the number
of the days three hundred and ninety
days: and thou shalt bear the iniquity of
the house of Israel.

6 And when thou hast accomplished
this, thou shalt sleep again upon thy
right side, and thou shalt take upon thee
the iniquity of the house of Juda forty
days: a day for it year, yea, a day for a
year I have appointed to thee.

7 And thou shalt turn thy face to the
siege of Jerusalem, and thy arm shall be
stretched out: and thou shalt prophesy
against it.

8 Behold I have encompassed thee with
bands: and thou shalt not turn thyself
from one side to the other, till thou hast
ended the days of thy siege.

9 And take to thee wheat and barley,
and beans, and lentils, and millet, and
fitches, and put them in one vessel, and
make thee bread thereof according to
the number of the days that thou shalt
lie upon thy side: three hundred and
ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.

10 And thy meat that thou shalt eat,
shall be in weight twenty staters a day:
from time to time thou shalt eat it.

11 And thou shalt drink water by
measure, the sixth part of a hin: from time
to time thou shalt drink it,

12 And thou shalt eat it as barley bread
baked under the ashes: and thou shalt
cover it, in their sight, with the dung
that cometh out of a man.

13 And the Lord said: So shall the
children of Israel Beat their bread all filthy
among the nations whither I will cast
them out.

14 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God,
behold my soul hath not been defiled,
and from my infancy even till now, I
have not eaten any thing that died of
itself, or was torn by beasts, and no
unclean flesh hath entered into my
mouth.

15 And he said to me: Behold I have
given thee neat's dung for man's dung,
and thou shalt make thy bread therewith.

16 And he said to me: Son of man:
Behold, I will break in pieces the staff of
bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat
bread by weight, and with care: and they
shall drink water by measure, and in distress.

17 So that when bread and water fail,
every man may fall against his brother,
and they may pine away in their iniquities.

Chapter 5

1 And thou, son of man, take thee a
sharp knife that shaveth the hair:
and cause it to pass over thy head, and
over thy beard: and take thee a balance
to weigh in, and divide the hair.

2 A third part thou shalt burn with fire
in the midst of the city, according to the
fulfilling of the days of the siege: and
thou shalt take a third part, and cut it
in pieces with the knife all round about:
and the other third part thou shalt scatter
in the wind, and I will draw out the sword
after them.

3 And thou shalt take thereof a small
number: and shalt bind them in the
skirt of thy cloak.

4 And thou shalt take of them again,
and shalt cast them in the midst of the
fire, and shalt burn them with fire: and
out of it shall come forth a fire into all
the house of Israel.

5 Thus saith the Lord God: This is
Jerusalem, I have set her in the midst of
the nations, and the countries round
about her.

6 And she hath despised my judgments,
so as to be more wicked than the
Gentiles; and my commandments, more than
the countries that are round about her:
for they have cast off my judgments,
and have not walked in my commandments.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Because you have surpassed the Gentiles
that are round about you, and have not
walked in my commandments, and have
not kept my judgments, and have not
done according to the judgments of the
nations that are round about you:

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Behold I come against thee, and I myself
will execute judgments in the midst of
thee in the sight of the Gentiles.

9 And I will do in thee that which I
have not done: and the like to which I
will do no more, because of all thy
abominations.

10 Therefore the fathers shall eat the
sons in the midst of thee, and the sons
shall eat their fathers: and I will execute
judgments in thee, and I will scatter thy
whole remnant into every wind.

11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord
God : Because thou hast violated my
sanctuary with all thy offences, and with ail
thy abominations: I will also break thee
in pieces, and my eye shall not spare,
and I will not have any pity.

12 A third part of thee shall die with
the pestilence, and shall be consumed
with famine in the midst of thee: and a
third part of thee shall fall by the sword
round about thee: and a third part of
thee will I scatter into every wind, and I
will draw out a sword after them.

13 And I will accomplish my fury, and
will cause my indignation to rest upon
them, and I will be comforted: and they
shall know that I the Lord have spoken
it in my zeal, when I shall have accomplished
my indignation in them.

14 And I will make thee desolate, and
a reproach among the nations that are
round about thee, in the sight of every
one that passeth by.

15 And thou shalt be a reproach, and a
scoff, an example, and an astonishment
amongst the nations that are round about
thee, when I shall have executed judgments
in thee in anger, and in indignation,
and in wrathful rebukes.

16 I the Lord have spoken it: When I
shall send upon them the grievous
arrows of famine, which shall bring death,
and which I will send to destroy you:
and I will gather together famine against
you: and I will break among you the
staff of bread.

17 And I will send in upon you famine,
and evil beasts unto utter destruction:
and pestilence, and blood shall pass
through thee, and I will bring in the
sword upon thee. I the Lord have
spoken it.

Chapter 6

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

2 Son of man, set thy face towards the
mountains of Israel, and prophesy against
them.

3 And say: Ye mountains of Israel,
hear the word of the Lord God: Thus
Faith the Lord God to the mountains,
and to the hills, and to the rocks, and
the valleys: Behold, I will bring upon
you the sword, and I will destroy your
high places.

4 And I will throw down your altars,
and your idols shall be broken in pieces:
and I will cast down your slain before
your idols.

5 And I will lay the dead carcasses of
the children of Israel before your idols:
and I will scatter Sour bones round about
your altars,

6 In all your dwelling places. The cities
shall be laid waste, and the high places
shall be thrown down, and destroyed,
and your altars shall be abolished, and
shall be broken in pieces: and your idols
shall be no more, and your temples shall
be destroyed, and your works shall be
defaced.

7 And the slain shall fall in the midst
of you: and you shall know that I am
the Lord.

8 And I will leave in you some that
shall escape the sword among the
nations, when I shall have scattered you,
through the countries.

9 And they that are saved of you shall
remember me amongst the nations to
which they are carried captives: because
I have broken their heart that was
faithless, and revolted from me: and their
eyes that went a fornicating after their
idols: and they shall be displeased with
themselves because of the evils which
they have committed in all their abominations.

10 And they shall know that I the Lord
have not spoken in vain that I would do
this evil to them.

11 Thus saith the Lord God: Strike with
thy hand, and stamp with thy foot, and
say: Alas, for all the abominations of
the evils of the house of Israel: for they
shall fall by the sword, by the famine
and by the pestilence.

12 He that is far off shall die of the
pestilence: and he that is near, shall fall by
the sword: and he that remaineth, and
is besieged, shall die by the famine: and
I will accomplish my indignation upon
them.

13 And you shall know that I am the
Lord, when your slain shall be amongst
your idols, round about your altars, in
every high hill, and on all the tops of
mountains, and under every woody tree,
and under every thick oak, the place
where they burnt sweet smelling
frankincense to all their idols.

14 And I will stretch forth my hand
upon them: and I will make the land
desolate, and abandoned from the desert
of Deblatha in all their dwelling places:
and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 7

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

2 And thou son of man, thus saith the
Lord God to the land of Israel: The end
is come, the end is come upon the four
quarters of the land.

3 Now is an end come upon thee, and
I will send my wrath upon thee, and I
will judge thee according to thy ways:
and I will set all thy abominations against
thee.

4 And my eye shall not spare thee, and
I will shew thee no pity: but I will lay
thy ways upon thee, and thy abominations
shall be in the midst of thee: and
you shall know that I am the Lord.

5 Thus saith the Lord God: One
affliction, behold an affliction is come.

6 An end is come, the end is come, it
hath awaked against thee: behold it is
come.

7 Destruction is come upon thee that
dwellest in the land: the time is come,
the day of slaughter is near, and not of
the joy of mountains.

8 Now very shortly I will pour out my
wrath upon thee, and I will accomplish
my anger in thee: and I will judge thee
according to thy ways, and I will lay
upon thee all thy crimes.

9 And my eye shall not spare, neither
will I shew mercy: but I will lay thy
ways upon thee, and thy abominations
shall be in the midst of thee: and you
shall know that I am the Lord that
strike.

11 Iniquity is risen up into a rod of
impiety: nothing of them shall remain,
nor of their people, nor of the noise of
them: and there shall be no rest among
them.

12 The time is come, the day is at hand:
let not the buyer rejoice: nor the seller
mourn: for wrath is upon all the people
thereof.

13 For the seller shall not return to
that which he hath sold, although their
life be yet among the living. For the
vision which regardeth all the multitude
thereof, shall not go back: neither shall
man be strengthened in the iniquity of
his life.

14 Blow the trumpet, let all be made
ready, yet there is none to go to the
battle: for my wrath shall be upon all the
people thereof.

15 The sword without: and the pestilence,
and the famine within: he that is
in the field shall die by the sword: and
they that are in the city, shall be
devoured by the pestilence, and the famine.

16 And such of them as shall flee shall
escape: and they shall be in the mountains
like doves of the valleys, all of
them trembling, every one for his iniquity.

17 All hands shall be made feeble, and
all knees shall run with water.

18 And they shall gird themselves
with haircloth, and fear shall cover them,
and shame shall be upon every face, and
baldness upon all their heads.

19 Their silver shall be cast forth, and
their gold shall become a dunghill.
Their silver and their gold shall not be
able to deliver them in the day of the
wrath of the Lord. They shall not
satisfy their soul, and their bellies shall
not be filled: because it hath been the
stumblingblock of their iniquity.

20 And they have turned the ornament
of their jewels into pride, and have made
of it the images of their abominations,
and idols: therefore I have made it an
uncleanness to them.

21 And I will give it into the hands of
strangers for spoil, and to the wicked of
the earth for a prey, and they shall defile
it.

22 And I will turn away my face from
them, and they shall violate my secret
place: and robbers shall enter into it, and
defile it.

23 Make a shutting up: for the land is
full of the judgment of blood, and the
city is full of iniquity.

24 And I will bring the worse of the
nations, and they shall possess their
houses: and I will make the pride of the
mighty to cease, and they shall possess
their sanctuary.

25 When distress cometh upon them,
they will seek for peace and there shall
be none.

26 Trouble shall come upon trouble, and
rumour upon rumour, and they shall seek
a vision of the prophet, and the law shall
perish from the priest, and counsel from
the ancients.

27 The king shall mourn, and the prince
shall be clothed with sorrow, and the
hands of the people of the land shall be
troubled. I will do to them according to
their way, and will judge them according
to their judgments: and they shall know
that I am the Lord.

Chapter 8

1 And it came to pass in the sixth
year, in the sixth month, in the fifth
day of the month, as I sat in my house,
and the ancients of Juda sat before me,
that the hand of the Lord God fell there
upon me.

2 And I saw, and behold a likeness as
the appearance of fire: from the appearance
of his loins, and downward, fire: and
from his loins, and upward, as the
appearance of brightness, as the appearance of
amber.

3 And the likeness of a hand was put
forth and took me by a lock of my head:
and the spirit lifted me up between the
earth and the heaven, and brought me in
the vision of God into Jerusalem, near
the inner gate, that looked toward the
north, where was set the idol of jealousy
to provoke to jealousy.

4 And behold the glory of the God of
Israel was there, according to the vision
which I had seen in the plain.

5 And he said to me: Son of man, lift
up thy eyes towards the way of the north.
And I lifted up my eyes towards the way
of the north: and behold on the north
side of the gate of the altar the idol of
jealousy in the very entry.

6 And he said to me: Son of man, dost
thou see, thinkest thou, what these are
doing, the great abominations that the
house of Israel committeth here, that I
should depart far off from my sanctuary?
and turn thee yet again and thou shalt
see greater abominations.

7 And he brought me in to the door of
the court: and I saw, and behold a hole
in the wall.

8 And he said to me: Son of man, dig
in the wall. And when I had digged in
the wall, behold a door.

9 And he said to me: Go in, and see the
wicked abominations which they commit
here.

10 And I went in and saw, and behold
every form of creeping things, and of
living creatures, the abomination, and all
the idols of the house of Israel, were
painted on the wall all round about.

11 And seventy men of the ancients of
the house of Israel, and Jezonias the son
of Saaphan stood in the midst of them,
that stood before the pictures: and every
one had a censer in his hand: and a cloud
of smoke went up from the incense.

12 And he add to me: Surely thou seest.
O son of man, what the ancients of the
house of Israel do in the dark, every one
in private in his chamber: for they say:
The Lord seeth us not, the Lord hath
forsaken the earth.

13 And he said to me: If thou turn thee
again, thou shalt see greater abominations
which these commit.

14 And he brought me in by the door of
the gate of the Lord's house, which looked
to the north: and behold women sat
there mourning for Adonis.

15 And he said to me: Surely thou hast
seen, O son of man: but turn thee again:
and thou shalt see greater abominations
than these.

16 And he brought me into the inner
court of the house of the Lord: and
behold at the door of the temple of the
Lord, between the porch and the altar,
were about five and twenty men having
their backs towards the temple of the
Lord, and their faces to the east: and
they adored towards the rising of the
sun.

17 And he said to me: Surely thou hast
seen, O son of man: is this a light thing
to the house of Juda, that they should
commit these abominations which they
have committed here: because they have
filled the land with iniquity, and have
turned to provoke me to anger? and
behold they put a branch to their nose.

18 Therefore I also will deal with them
in my wrath: my eye shall not spare
them, neither will I shew mercy: and
when they shall cry to my ears with a
loud voice, I will not hear them.

Chapter 9

1 And he cried in my ears with a loud
voice, saying: The visitations of the
city are at hand, and every one hath a
destroying weapon in his hand.

2 And behold six men came from the
way of the upper gate, which looketh to
the north: and each one had his weapon
of destruction in his hand: and there was
one man in the midst of them clothed
with linen, with a writer's inkhorn at
his reins: and they went in, and stood
by the brazen altar.

3 And the glory of the Lord of Israel
went up from the cherub, upon which he
was, to the threshold of the house: and
he called to the man that was clothed
with linen, and had a writer's inkhorn at
his loins.

4 And the Lord said to him: Go through
the midst of the city, through the midst
of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the
foreheads of the men that sigh, and
mourn for all the abominations that are
committed in the midst thereof.

5 And to the others he said in my
hearing: Go ye after him through the city,
and strike: let not your eyes spare, nor
be ye moved with pity.

6 Utterly destroy old and young,
maidens, children and women: but upon
whomsoever you shall see Thau, kill him not,
and begin ye at my sanctuary. So they
began at the ancient men who mere
before the house.

7 And he said to them: Defile the house,
and ill the courts with the slain: go ye
forth. And they went forth, and slew
them that were in the city.

8 And the slaughter being ended I was
left: and I fell upon my face, and crying,
I said: Alas, alas, alas, O Lord God, wilt
thou then destroy all the remnant of
Israel, by pouring out thy fury upon
Jerusalem?

9 And he said to me: The iniquity of
the house of Israel, and of Juda, is
exceeding great, and the land is filled with
blood, and the city is filled with
perverseness: for they have said: The Lord
hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord
seeth not.

10 Therefore neither shall my eye spare,
nor will I have pity: I will requite their
way upon their head.

11 And behold the man that was clothed
with linen, that had the inkhorn at his
back, returned the word, saying: I have
done as thou hast commanded me.

Chapter 10

1 And saw and behold in the
firmament that was over the heads of the
cherubims, there appeared over them as
it were the sapphire stone, as the
appearance of the likeness of a throne.

2 And he spoke to the man, that was
clothed with linen, and said: Go in
between the wheels that are under the
cherubims and fill thy hand with the
coals of fire that are between the cherubims,
and pour them out upon the city.
And he went in, in my sight:

3 And the cherubims stood on the right
side of the house, when the man went in,
and a cloud filled the inner court.

4 And the glory of the Lord was lifted
up from above the cherub to the threshold
of the house: and the house was
filled with the cloud, and the court was
filled with the brightness of the glory of
the Lord.

5 And the sound of the wings of the
cherubims was heard even to the out-
ward court as the voice of God Almighty
speaking.

6 And when he had commanded the man
that was clothed with linen, saying: Take
fire from the midst of the wheels that are
between the cherubims: he went in and
stood beside the wheel,

7 And one cherub stretched out his arm
from the midst of the cherubims to the
fire that was between the cherubims:
and he took, and put it into the hands
of him that was clothed with linen: who
took it and went forth.

8 And there appeared in the cherubims
the likeness of a man's hand under their
wings.

9 And I saw, and behold there were four
wheels by the cherubims: one wheel by
one cherub, and another wheel by an-
other cherub: and the appearance of the
wheels was to the sight like the chrysolite
stone:

10 And as to their appearance, all four
were alike: as if a wheel were in the
midst of a wheel.

11 And when they went, they went by
four ways: and they turned not when
they went: but to the place whither they
first turned, the rest also followed, and
did not turn back.

12 And their whole body, and their
necks, and their hands, and their wings,
and the circles were full of eyes, round
about the four wheels.

13 And these wheels he called voluble,
in my hearing.

14 And every one had four faces: one
face was the face of a cherub, and the
second face, the face of a man: and in
the third was the face of a lion: and in
the fourth the face of an eagle.

15 And the cherubims were lifted up:
this is the living creature that I had seen
by the river Chobar.

16 And when the cherubims went, the
wheels also went by them: and when the
cherubims lifted up their wings, to mount
up from the earth, the wheels stayed not
behind, but were by them.

17 When they stood, these stood: and
when they were lifted up, these were
lifted up: for the spirit of life was in
them.

18 And the glory of the Lord went forth
from the threshold of the temple: and
stood over the cherubims.

19 And the cherubims lifting up their
wings, were raised from the earth before
me: and as they went out, the wheels
also followed: and it stood in the entry
of the east gate of the house of the Lord:
and the glory of the God of Israel was
over them.

20 This is the living creature, which I
saw under the God of Israel by the river
Chobar: and I understood that they were
cherubims.

21 Each one had four faces, and each
one had four wings: and the likeness of
a man's hand was under their wings.

22 And as to the likeness of their faces,
they were the same faces which I had
seen by the river Chobar, and their looks,
and the impulse of every one to go
straight forward.

Chapter 11

1 And the spirit lifted me up, and
brought me into the east gate of
the house of the Lord, which looketh
towards the rising of the sun: and behold
in the entry of the gate five and twenty
men: and I saw in the midst of them
Jezonias the son of Azur, and Pheltias the
son of Banaias, princes of the people.

2 And he said to me: Son of man, these
are the men that study iniquity, and
frame a wicked counsel in this city,

3 Saying: Were not houses lately built?
This city is the caldron, and we the flesh.

4 Therefore prophesy against them,
prophesy, thou son of man.

5 And the spirit of the Lord fell upon
me, and said to me: Speak: Thus saith
the Lord: Thus have you spoken, O house
of Israel, for I know the thoughts of your
heart.

6 You have killed a great many in this
city, and you have filled the streets
thereof with the slain.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Your slain, whom you have laid in the
midst thereof, they are the flesh, and
this is the caldron: and I will bring you
forth out of the midst thereof.

8 You have feared the sword, and I will
bring the sword upon you, saith the Lord
God.

9 And I will cast you out of the midst
thereof, and I will deliver you into the
hand of the enemies, and I will execute
judgments upon you.

10 You shall fall by the sword: I will
judge you in the borders of Israel, and
you shall know that I am the Lord.

11 This shall not be as a caldron to you,
and you shall not be as flesh in the midst
thereof: I will judge you in the borders
of Israel.

12 And you shall know that I am the
Lord: because you have not walked in
my commandments, and have not done
my judgments, but you have done according
to the judgments of the nations that;
are round about you.

13 And it came to pass, when I
prophesied, that Pheltias the son of Banaias
died: and I fell down upon my face, and
cried with a loud voice: and said: Alas,
alas, alas, O Lord God: wilt thou make an
end of all the remnant of Israel?

14 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

15 Son of man, thy brethren, thy
brethren, thy kinsmen, and all the house of
Israel, all they to whom the inhabitants
of Jerusalem have said: Get ye far from
the Lord, the land is given in possession
to us.

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Because I have removed them far off
among the Gentiles, and because I have
scattered them among the countries: I
will be to them a little sanctuary in the
countries whither they are come.

17 Therefore speak to them: Thus saith
the Lord God: I will gather you from
among the peoples, and assemble you
out of the countries wherein you are
scattered, and I will give you the land of
Israel.

18 And they shall go in thither, and
shall take away all the scandals, and all
the abominations thereof from thence.

19 And I will give them one heart, and
will put a new spirit in their bowels: and
I will take away the stony heart out of
their flesh, and will give them a heart of
flesh:

20 That they may walk in my commandments,
and keep my judgments, and do
them: and that they may be my people,
and I may be their God.

21 But as for them whose heart walketh
after their scandals and abominations, I
will lay their way upon their head, saith
the Lord God.

22 And the cherubims lifted up their
wings, and the wheels with them: and the
glory of the God of Israel was over
them.

23 And the glory of the Lord went up
from the midst of the city, and stood
over the mount that is on the east side
of the city.

24 And the spirit lifted me up, and
brought me into Chaldea, to them of the
captivity, in vision, by the spirit of God:
and the vision which I had seen was
taken up from me.

25 And I spoke to them of the captivity
all the words of the Lord, which he had
shewn me.

Chapter 12

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

2 Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst
of a provoking house: who have eyes to
see, and see not: and ears to hear, and
hear not: for they are a provoking
house.

3 Thou, therefore, O son of man,
prepare thee all necessaries for removing,
and remove by day in their sight: and
thou shalt remove out of thy place to
another place in their sight, if so be they
will regard it: for they are a provoking
house.

4 And thou shalt bring forth thy furniture
as the furniture of one that is
removing by day in their sight: and thou
shalt go forth in the evening in their
presence, as one goeth forth that removeth
his dwelling.

5 Dig thee a way through the wall
before their eyes: and thou shalt go forth
through it.

6 In their sight thou shalt be carried
out upon men's shoulders, thou shalt be
carried out in the dark: thou shalt cover
thy face, and shalt not see the ground:
for I have set thee for a sign of things to
come to the house of Israel.

7 I did therefore as he had commanded
me: I brought forth my goods by day,
as the goods of one that removeth: and
in the evening I digged through the
wall with my hand: and I went forth
in the dark, and was carried on men's
shoulders in their sight.

8 And the word of the Lord came to
me in the morning, saying:

9 Son of man, hath not the house of
Israel, the provoking house, said to
thee: What art thou doing?

10 Say to them: Thus saith the Lord
God: This burden concerneth my prince
that is in Jerusalem, and all the house
of Israel, that are among them.

11 Say: I am a sign of things to come
to you: as I have done, so shall it be
done to them: they shall be removed
from their dwellings, and go into
captivity.

12 And the prince that is in the midst
of them, shall be carried on shoulders,
he shall go forth in the dark: they shall
dig through the wall to bring him out:
his face shall be covered, that he may
not see the ground with his eyes.

13 And I will spread my net over him,
and he shall be taken in my net: and I
will bring him into Babylon, into the
land of the Chaldeans, and he shall not
see it, and there he shall die.

14 And all that are about him, his
guards, and his troops I will scatter into
every wind: and I will draw out the
sword after them.

15 And they shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall have dispersed them
among the nations, and scattered them
in the countries.

16 And I will leave a few men of them
from the sword, and from the famine,
and from the pestilence: that they may
declare all their wicked deeds among the
nations whither they shall go: and they
shall know that I am the Lord.

17 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

18 Son of man, eat thy bread in trouble:
and drink thy water in hurry and sorrow.

19 And say to the people of the land:
Thus saith the Lord God to them that
dwell in Jerusalem in the land of Israel:
They shall eat their bread in care, and
drink their water in desolation: that
the land may become desolate from the
multitude that is therein, for the iniquity
of all that dwell therein.

20 And the cities that are now inhabited
shall be laid waste, and the land
shall be desolate: and you shall know
that I am the Lord.

21 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

22 Son of man, what is this proverb
that you have in the land of Israel?
saying: The days shall be prolonged, and
every vision shall fail.

23 Say to them therefore: Thus saith
the Lord God: I will make this proverb
to cease, neither shall it be any more a
common saying in Israel: and tell them
that the days are at hand, and the effect
of every vision.

24 For there shall be no more any vain
visions, nor doubtful divination in the
midst of the children of Israel.

25 For I the Lord will speak: and what
word soever I shall speak, it shall come
to pass, and shall not be prolonged any
more: but in your days, ye provoking
house, I will speak the word, and will do
it, saith the Lord God.

26 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

27 Son of man, behold the house of
Israel, they that say: The vision that this
man seeth, is for many days to come:
and this men prophesieth of times afar
off.

28 Therefore say to them: Thus saith
the Lord God: Not one word of mine
shall be prolonged any more: the word
that I shall speak shall be accomplished,
saith the Lord God.

Chapter 13

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

2 Son of man, prophesy thou against
the prophets of Israel that prophesy:
and thou shalt say to them that
prophesy out of their own heart: Hear ye
the word of the Lord:

3 Thus saith the Lord God: Woe to
the foolish prophets that follow their
own spirit, and see nothing.

4 Thy prophets, O Israel, were like
foxes in the deserts.

5 You have not gone up to face the
enemy, nor have you set up a wall for
the house of Israel, to stand in battle in
the day of the Lord.

6 They see vain things, and they
foretell lies, saying: The Lord saith: whereas
the Lord hath not sent them: and they
have persisted to confirm what they
have said.

7 Have you not seen a vain vision and
spoken a lying divination: and you say:
The Lord saith: whereas I have not
spoken.

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Because you have spoken vain things,
and have seen lies: therefore behold
I come against you, saith the Lord
God.

9 And my hand shall be upon the
prophets that see vain things, and that
divine lies: they shall not be in the
council of my people, nor shall they be
written in the writing of the house of
Israel, neither shall they enter into the
land of Israel, and you shall know that
I am the Lord God.

10 Because they have deceived my
people, saying: Peace, and there is no
peace: and the people built up a wall,
and they daubed it with dirt without
straw.

11 Say to them that daub without
tempering, that it shall fall: for there shall
be an overflowing shower, and I will
cause great hailstones to fall violently
from above, and a stormy wind to throw
it down.

12 Behold, when the wall is fallen: shall
it not be said to you: Where is the
daubing wherewith you have daubed it?

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Lo, I will cause a stormy wind to break
forth in my indignation, and there shall
be an overflowing shower in my anger:
and great hailstones in my wrath to
consume.

14 And I will break down the wall that
you have daubed with untempered
mortar: and I will make it even with the
ground, and the foundation thereof shall
be laid bare: and it shall fall, and shall
be consumed in the midst thereof: and
you shall know that I am the Lord.

15 And I will accomplish my wrath
upon the wall, and upon them that daub
it without tempering the mortar, and I
will say to you: The wall is no more,
and they that daub it are no more.

16 Even the prophets of Israel that
prophesy to Jerusalem, and that see visions
of peace for her: and there is no peace,
saith the Lord God.

17 And thou, son of man, set thy face
against the daughters of thy people that
prophesy out of their own heart: and do
thou prophesy against them,

18 And say: Thus saith the Lord God:
Woe to them that sew cushions under
every elbow: and make pillows for the
heads of persons of every age to catch
souls: and when they caught the souls
of my people, they gave life to their
souls.

19 And they violated me among my
people, for a handful of barley, and a
piece of bread, to kill souls which should
not die, and to save souls alive which
should not live, telling lies to my people
that believe lies.

20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Behold I declare against your cushions,
wherewith you catch flying souls: and I
will tear them off from your arms: and
I will let go the souls that you catch, the
souls that should fly.

21 And I will tear your pillows, and will
deliver my people out of your hand,
neither shall they be any more in your
hands to be a prey: and you shall know
that I am the Lord.

22 Because with lies you have made the
heart of the just to mourn, whom I have
not made sorrowful: and have
strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he
should not return from his evil way, and
live.

23 Therefore you shall not see vain
things, nor divine divinations any more,
and I will deliver my people out of your
hand: and you shall know that I am the
Lord.

Chapter 14

1 And some of the ancients of Israel
came to me, and sat before me.

2 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

3 Son of man, these men have placed
their uncleannesses in their hearts, and
have set up before their face the
stumblingblock of their iniquity : and shall I
answer when they inquire of me?

4 Therefore speak to them, and say to
them: Thus saith the Lord God: Man,
man of the house of Israel that shall
place his uncleannesses in his heart, and
set up the stumblingblock of his iniquity
before his face, and shall come to the
prophet inquiring of me by him: I the
Lord will answer him according to the
multitude of his uncleannesses:

5 That the house of Israel may be caught
in their own heart, with which they
have departed from me through all their
idols.

6 Therefore say to the house of Israel:
Thus saith the Lord God: Be converted,
and depart from your idols, and turn
away your faces from all your abominations.

7 For every man of the house of Israel,
and every stranger among the proselytes
in Israel, if he separate himself from me,
and place his idols in his heart, and set
the stumblingblock of his iniquity before
his face, and come to the prophet to
inquire of me by him: I the Lord will
answer him by myself.

8 And I will set my face against that
man, and will make him an example, and
a proverb, and will cut him off from the
midst of my people: and you shall know
that I am the Lord.

9 And when the prophet shall err, and
speak a word: I the Lord have deceived
that prophet: and I will stretch forth my
hand upon him, and will cut him off from
the midst of my people Israel.

10 And they shall bear their iniquity:
according to the iniquity of him that
inquireth, so shall the iniquity of the
prophet be.

11 That the house of Israel may go no
more astray from me, nor be polluted
with all their transgressions: but may be
my people, and I may be their God, saith
the Lord of hosts.

12 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

13 Son of man, when a land shall sin
against me, so as to transgress grievously,
I will stretch forth my hand upon it,
and will break the staff of the bread
thereof: and I will send famine upon it,
and will destroy man and beast out of it.

14 And if these three men, Noe, Daniel,
and Job, shall be in it: they shall deliver
their own souls by their justice, saith the
Lord of hosts.

15 And if I shall bring mischievous
beasts also upon the land to waste it, and
it be desolate, so that there is none that
can pass because of the beasts:

16 If these three men shall be in it, as
I live, saith the Lord, they shall deliver
neither sons nor daughters: but they
only shall be delivered, and the land
shall be made desolate.

17 Or if I bring the sword upon that
land, and say to the sword: Pass through
the land: and I destroy man and beast
out of it:

18 And these three men be in the midst
thereof: as I live, saith the Lord God,
they shall deliver neither sons nor daughters,
but they themselves alone shall be
delivered.

19 Or if I also send the pestilence upon
that land, and pour out my indignation
upon it in blood, to cut off from it man
and beast:

20 And Noe, and Daniel, and Job be in
the midst thereof: as I live, saith the
Lord God, they shall deliver neither son
nor daughter: but they shall only deliver
their own souls by their justice.

21 For thus saith the Lord: Although I
shall send in upon Jerusalem my four
grievous judgments, the sword, and the
famine, and the mischievous beasts, and
the pestilence, to destroy out of it man
and beast,

22 Yet there shall be left in it some that
shall be saved, who shall bring away
their sons and daughters: behold they
shall come among you, and you shall see
their way, and their doings: and you
shall be comforted concerning the evil
that I have brought upon Jerusalem, in
all things that I have brought upon it.

23 And they shall comfort you, when
you shall see their ways, and their doings :
and you shall know that I have not done
without cause all that I have done in it,
saith the Lord God.

Chapter 15

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

2 Son of man, what shall be made of the
wood of the vine, out of all the trees of
the woods that are among the trees of
the forests?

3 Shall wood be taken of if, to do any
work, or shall a pin be made of it for
any vessel to hang thereon?

4 Behold it is cast into the fire for fuel:
the fire hath consumed both ends thereof,
and the midst thereof is reduced to
ashes: shall it be useful for any work?

5 Even when it was whole it was not fit
for work: how much less, when the fire
hath devoured and consumed it, shall
any work be made of it?

6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
As the vine tree among the trees of the
forests which I have given to the fire to
be consumed, so will I deliver up the
inhabitants of Jerusalem.

7 And I will set my face against them:
they shall go out from fire, and fire shall
consume them : and you shall know that
I am the Lord, when I shall have set my
face against them.

8 And I shall have made their land a
wilderness, and desolate, because they
have been transgressors, saith the Lord
God.

Chapter 16

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

2 Son of man, make known to Jerusalem
her abominations.

3 And thou shalt say: Thus saith the
Lord God to Jerusalem: Thy root, and
thy nativity is of the land of Chanaan,
thy father was an Amorrhite, and thy
mother a Cethite.

4 And when thou wast born, in the day
of thy nativity thy navel wits not cut,
neither wast thou washed with water for
thy health, nor salted with salt, nor swaddled
with clouts.

5 No eye had pity on thee to do any of
these things for thee, out of compassion
to thee: but thou wast cast out upon the
face of the earth in the abjection of thy
soul, in the day that thou wast born.

6 And passing by thee, I saw that thou
wast trodden under foot in thy own blood.
and I said to thee when thou wast in thy
blood: Live: I have said to thee: Live
in thy blood.

7 I caused thee to multiply as the bud
of the field: and thou didst increase and
grow great, and advancedst, and camest
to woman's ornament: thy breasts were
fashioned, and thy hair grew: and thou
wast naked, and full of confusion.

8 And I passed by thee, and saw thee:
and behold thy time was the time of
lovers : and I spread my garment over thee,
and covered thy ignominy. And I swore
to thee, and I entered into a covenant
with thee, saith the Lord God: and thou
becamest mine.

9 And I washed thee with water, and
cleansed away thy blood from thee: and
I anointed thee with oil.

10 And I clothed thee with embroidery,
and shed thee with violet coloured shoes :
and I girded thee about with fine linen,
and clothed thee with fine garments.

11 I decked thee also with ornaments,
and put bracelets on thy hands, and a
chain about thy neck.

12 And I put a jewel upon thy forehead
and earrings in thy ears, and a beautiful
crown upon thy head.

13 And thou wast adorned with gold, and
silver, and wast clothed with fine linen,
and embroidered work, and many colours:
thou didst eat fine hour, and honey, and
oil, and wast made exceeding beautiful:
and wast advanced to be a queen.

14 And thy renown went forth among
the nations for thy beauty: for thou wast
perfect through my beauty, which I had
put upon thee, saith the Lord God.

15 But trusting in thy beauty, thou playedst
the harlot because of thy renown,
and thou hast prostituted thyself to every
passenger, to be his.

16 And taking of thy garments thou hast
made thee high places sewed together on
each side: and hast played the harlot
upon them, as hath not been done before,
nor shall be hereafter.

17 And thou tookest thy beautiful
vessels, of my gold, and my silver, which I
gave thee, and thou madest thee images
of men, and hast committed fornication
with them.

18 And thou tookest thy garments of
divers colours, and coveredst them : and
settest my oil and my sweet incense
before them.

19 And my bread which I gave thee, the
fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith
I fed thee, thou hast set before them for
a sweet odour; and it was done, saith
the Lord God.

20 And thou hast taken thy sons, and
thy daughters, whom thou hast borne to
me: and best sacrificed the same to
them to be devoured. Is thy fornication
small?

21 Thou hast sacrificed and given my
children to them, consecrating them by
fire.

22 And after all thy abominations, and
fornications, thou hast not remembered
the days of thy youth, when thou wast
naked, and full of confusion, trodden
under foot in thy own blood.

23 And it came to pass after all thy
wickedness (woe, woe to thee, saith the
Lord God)

24 That thou didst also build thee a
common stew, and madest thee a brothel
house in every street.

25 At every head of the way thou hast
set up a sign of thy prostitution: and
hast made thy beauty to be abominable:
and hast prostituted thyself to every one
that passed by, and hast multiplied thy
fornications.

26 And thou hast committed fornication
with the Egyptians thy neighbours, men
of large bodies, and hast multiplied thy
fornications to provoke me.

27 Behold, I will stretch out my hand
upon thee, and will take away thy
justification: and I will deliver thee up to
the will of the daughters of the Philistines
that hate thee, that are ashamed of thy
wicked way.

28 Thou hast also committed fornication
with the Assyrians, because thou wast
not yet satisfied: and after thou hadst
played the harlot with them, even so
thou wast not contented.

29 Thou hast also multiplied thy
fornications in the land of Chanaan with the
Chaldeans: and neither so wast then
satisfied.

30 Wherein shall I cleanse thy heart,
saith the Lord God: seeing thou dost all
these the works of a shameless prostitute?

31 Because thou hast built thy brothel
house at the head of every way, and
thou hast made thy high place in every
street: and wast not as a harlot that by
disdain enhanceth her price,

32 But as an adulteress, that bringeth
in strangers over her husband.

33 Gifts are given to all harlots: but
thou hast given hire to all thy lovers,
and thou hast given them gifts to come
to thee from every side, to commit
fornication with thee.

34 And it hath happened in thee
contrary to the custom of women in thy
fornications, and after thee there shall
be no such fornication: for in that thou
gavest rewards, and didst not take
rewards, the contrary hath been done in
thee.

35 Therefore, O harlot, hear the word
of the Lord.

36 Thus saith the Lord God: Because
thy money hath been poured out, and
thy shame discovered through thy
fornications with thy lovers, and with the
idols of thy abominations, by the blood
of thy children whom thou gavest them:

37 Behold, I will gather together all thy
lovers with whom thou hast taken
pleasure, and all whom thou hast loved, with
all whom thou hast hated: and I will
gather them together against thee on
every side, and will discover thy shame
in their sight, and they shall see all thy
nakedness.

38 And I will judge thee as adulteresses,
and they that shed blood are judged:
and I will give thee blood in fury and
jealousy.

39 And I will deliver thee into their
hands, and they shall destroy thy brothel
house, and throw down thy stews: and
they shall strip thee of thy garments,
and shall take away the vessels of thy
beauty: and leave thee naked, and full
of disgrace.

40 And they shall bring upon thee a
multitude, and they shall stone thee with
stones, and shall slay thee with their
swords.

41And they shall burn thy houses
with fire, and shall execute judgments
upon thee in the sight of many women:
and thou shalt cease from fornication,
and shalt give no hire any more.

42 And my indignation shall rest in thee:
and my jealousy shall depart from thee,
and I will cease and be angry no more.

43 Because thou hast not remembered
the days of thy youth, but hast provoked
me in all these things: wherefore I also
have turned thy ways upon thy head,
saith the Lord God, and I have not done
according to thy wicked deeds in all thy
abominations.

44 Behold every one that useth a
common proverb, shall use this against thee,
saying: As the mother was, so also is
her daughter.

45 Thou art thy mother's daughter, that
cast off her husband, and her children:
and thou art the sister of thy sisters, who
cast off their husbands, and their
children: your mother was a Cethite, and
your father an Amorrhite.

46 And thy elder sister is Samaria, she
and her daughters that dwell at thy left
hand: and thy younger sister that
dwelleth at thy right hand is Sodom, and her
daughters.

47 But neither hast thou walked in their
ways, nor hast thou done a little less
than they according to their wickednesses:
thou hast done almost more wicked
things than they in all thy ways

48 as I live, saith the Lord God, thy
sister Sodom herself, and her daughters,
have not done as thou hast done, and
thy daughters.

49 Behold this was the iniquity of
Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread,
and abundance, and the idleness of her,
and of her daughters: and they did not
put forth their hand to the needy, and to
the poor.

50 And they were lifted up, and
committed abominations before me: and I
took them away as thou hast seen.

51 And Samaria committed not half thy
sins: but thou hast surpassed them with
thy crimes, and hast justified thy sisters
by all thy abominations which thou hast
done.

52 Therefore do thou also bear thy
confusion, thou that hast surpassed thy
sisters with thy sine, doing more wickedly
than they: for they are justified above
thee, therefore be thou also confounded,
and bear thy shame, thou that hast
justified thy sisters.

53 And I will bring back and restore
them by bringing back Sodom, with her
daughters, and by bringing back Samaria,
and her daughters: and I will bring those
that return of thee in the midst of them.

54 That thou mayest bear thy shame,
and mayest be confounded in all that thou
hast done, comforting them.

55 And thy sister Sodom and her
daughters shall return to their ancient state:
and Samaria and her daughters shall
return to their ancient state: and thou
and thy daughters shall return to your
ancient state.

56 And Sodom thy sister was not heard
of in thy mouth, in the day of thy pride,

57 Before thy malice was laid open: as
it is at this time, making thee a reproach
of the daughters of Syria, and of all the
daughters of Palestine round about thee,
that encompass thee on all sides.

59 For thus saith the Lord God: I will
deal with thee, as thou hast despised the
oath, in breaking the covenant:

60 And I will remember my covenant
with thee in the days of thy youth: and
I will establish with thee an everlasting
covenant.

61 And thou shalt remember thy ways,
and be ashamed: when thou shalt receive
thy sisters, thy elder and thy younger:
and I will give them to thee for daughters,
but not by thy covenant.

62 And I will establish my covenant
with thee: and thou shalt know that I
am the Lord,

63 That thou mayest remember, and be
confounded, and mayest no more open
thy mouth because of thy confusion,
when I shall be pacified toward thee for
all that thou hast done, saith the Lord
God.

Chapter 17

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

2 Son of man, put forth a riddle, and
speak a parable to the house of Israel,

3 And say: Thus saith the Lord God: A
large eagle with great wings, long-limbed,
full of feathers, and of variety, came to
Libanus, and took away the marrow of
the cedar.

4 He cropped off the top of the twigs
thereof: and carried it away into the
land of Chanaan, and he set it in a city
of merchants.

5 And he took of the seed of the land,
and put it in the ground for seed, that it
might take a firm root over many waters:
he planted it on the surface of the earth.

6 And it sprung up and grew into a
spreading vine of low stature, and the
branches thereof looked towards him:
and the roots thereof were under him.
So it became a vine, and grew into
branches, and shot forth sprigs.

7 And there was another large eagle,
with great wings, and many feathers:
and behold this vine, bending as it were
her roots towards him, stretched forth
her branches to him, that he might water
it by the furrows of her plantation.

8 It was planted in a good ground upon
many waters, that it might bring forth
branches, and bear fruit, that it might
become a large vine.

9 Say thou: Thus saith the Lord God:
Shall it prosper then? shall he not pull
up the roots thereof, and strip off its
fruit, and dry up all the branches it hath
shot forth, and make it wither: and this
without a strong arm, or many people,
to pluck it up by the root?

10 Behold, it is planted: shall it prosper
then? shall it not be dried up when the
burning wind shall touch it, and shall it
not wither in the furrows where it grew?

11 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

12 Say to the provoking house: Know
you not what these things mean? Tell
them: Behold the king of Babylon
cometh to Jerusalem: and he shall take away
the king and the princes thereof, and
carry them with him to Babylon.

13 And he shall take one of the king's
seed, and make a covenant with him,
and take an oath of him. Yea, and he
shall take away the mighty men of the
land,

14 That it may be a low kingdom and
not lift itself up, but keep his covenant,
and observe it.

15 But he hath revolted from him and
sent ambassadors to Egypt, that it might
give him horses, and much people. And
shall he that hath done thus prosper, or
be saved? and shall he escape that hath
broken the covenant?

16 As I live, saith the Lord God: In the
place where the king dwelleth that made
him king, whose oath he hath made
void, and whose covenant he broke,
even in the midst of Babylon shall he die.

17 And not with a great army, nor with
much people shall Pharao fight against
him: when he shall cast up mounts, and
build forts, to cut off many souls.

18 For he had despised the oath,
breaking his covenant, and behold he hath
given his hand: and having done all
these things, he shall not escape.

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
As I live, I will lay upon his head the
oath he hath despised, and the covenant
he hath broken.

20 And I will spread my net over him,
and he shall be taken in my net: and I
will bring him into Babylon, and will
judge him there for the transgression by
which he hath despised me.

21 And all his fugitives with all his
bands shall fall by the sword: and the
residue shall be scattered into every
wind: and you shall know that I the
Lord have spoken.

22 Thus saith the Lord God: I myself
will take of the marrow of the high
cedar, and will set it: I will crop off a
tender twig from the top of the branches
thereof, and I will plant it on a mountain
high and eminent.

23 On the high mountains of Israel will
I plant it, and it shall shoot forth into
branches, and shall bear fruit, and it
shall become a great cedar: and all birds
shall dwell under it, and every fowl shall
make its nest under the shadow of the
branches thereof.

24 And all the trees of the country shall
know that I the Lord have brought down
the high tree, and exalted the low tree:
and have dried up the green tree, and
have caused the dry tree to flourish. I
the Lord have spoken and have done it.

Chapter 18

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying: What is the meaning?

2 That you use among you this parable
as a proverb in the land of Israel, saying:
The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and
the teeth of the children are set on edge.

3 As I live, saith the Lord God, this
parable shall be no more to you a
proverb in Israel.

4 Behold all souls are mine: as the soul
of the father, so also the soul of the son
is mine: the soul that sinneth, the same
shall die.

5 And if a man be just, and do judgment
and justice,

6 And hath not eaten upon the
mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of
the house of Israel: and hath not defiled
his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a
menstruous woman:

7 And hath not wronged any man: but
hath restored the pledge to the debtor,
hath taken nothing away by violence:
hath given his bread to the hungry, and
hath covered the naked with a garment:

8 Hath not lent upon usury, nor taken
any increase: hath withdrawn his hand
from iniquity, and hath executed true
judgment between man and man:

9 Hath walked in my commandments,
and kept my judgments, to do truth: he
is just, he shall surely live, saith the
Lord God.

10 And if he beget a son that is a
robber, a shedder of blood, and that hath
done some one of these things:

11 Though he doth not all these things,
but that eateth upon the mountains, and
that defileth his neighbour's wife:

12 That grieveth the needy and the poor,
that taketh away by violence, that
restoreth not the pledge, and that lifteth
up his eyes to idols, that committeth
abomination:

13 That giveth upon usury, and that
taketh an increase: shall such a one live?
he shall not live. Seeing he hath done
all these detestable things, he shall
surely die, his blood shall be upon him.

14 But if he beget a son, who, seeing all
his father's sine, which he hath done, is
afraid, and shall not do the like to them :

15 That hath not eaten upon the
mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols
of the house of Israel, and hath not
defiled his neighbour's wife:

16 And hath not grieved any man, nor
withholden the pledge, nor taken away
with violence, but hath given his bread
to the hungry, and covered the naked
with a garment:

17 That hath turned away his hand from
injuring the poor, hath not taken usury
and increase, but hath executed my
judgments, and hath walked in my
commandments: this man shall not die for
the iniquity of his father, but living he
shall live.

18 As for his father, because he
oppressed and offered violence to his
brother, and wrought evil in the midst of his
people, behold he is dead in his own
iniquity.

19 And you say: Why hath not the son
borne the iniquity of his father? Verily,
because the son hath wrought judgment
and justice, hath kept all my
commandments, and done them, living, he shall
live.

20 The soul that sinneth, the same
shall die: the son shall not bear the
iniquity of the father, and the father shall
not bear the iniquity of the son: the
justice of the just shall be upon him, and
the wickedness of the wicked shall be
upon him.

21 But if the wicked do penance for all
his sins which he hath committed, and
keep all my commandments, and do
judgment, and justice, living he shall live,
and shall not die.

22 I will not remember all his iniquities
that he hath done: in his justice
which he hath wrought, he shall live.

23 Is it my will that a sinner should
die, saith the Lord God, and not that he
should be converted from his ways, and
live?

24 But if the just man turn himself away
from his justice, and do iniquity according
to all the abominations which the
wicked man useth to work, shall he live?
all his justices which he hath done, shall
not be remembered: in the prevarication,
by which he hath prevaricated, and
in his sin, which he hath committed, in
them he shall die.

25 And you have said: The way of the
Lord is not right. Hear ye, therefore, O
house of Israel: Is it my way that is not
right, and are not rather your ways
perverse?

26 For when the just turneth himself
away from his justice, and committeth
iniquity, he shall die therein: in the
injustice that he hath wrought he shall die.

27 And when the wicked turneth
himself away from his wickedness, which he
hath wrought, and doeth judgment, and
justice: he shall save his soul alive.

28 Because he considereth and turneth
away himself from all his iniquities which
he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and
not die.

29 And the children of Israel say: The
way of the Lord is not right. Are not
my ways right, O house of Israel, and are
not rather your ways perverse?

30 Therefore will I judge every man
according to his ways, O house of Israel,
saith the Lord God. Be converted, and
do penance for all your iniquities: and
iniquity shall not be your ruin.

31 Cast away from you all your
transgressions, by which you have
transgressed, and make to yourselves a new
heart, and a new spirit: and why will
you die, O house of Israel?

32 For I desire not the death of him
that dieth, saith the Lord God, return ye
and live.

Chapter 19

1 Moreover take thou up a lamentation
for the princes of Israel,

2 And say: Why did thy mother the
lioness lie down among the lions, and
bring up her whelps in the midst of
young lions?

3 And she brought out one of her whelps,
and he became a lion: and he learned to
catch the prey, and to devour men.

4 And the nations heard of him, and
took him, but not without receiving
wounds: and they brought him in chains
into the land of Egypt.

5 But she seeing herself weakened, and
that her hope was lost, took one of her
young lions, and set him up for a lion.

6 And he went up and down among the
lions, and became a lion: and he learned
to catch the prey, and to devour men.

7 He learned to make widows, and to
lay waste their cities: and the land
became desolate, and the fulness thereof
by the noise of his roaring.

8 And the nations Game together against
him on every side out of the provinces, and
they spread their net over him, in their
wounds he was taken.

9 And they put him into a cage, they
brought him in chains to the king of
Babylon: and they cast him into prison,
that his voice should no more be heard
upon the mountains of Israel.

10 Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood
planted by the water: her fruit and her
branches have grown out of many waters.

11 And she hath strong rods to make
sceptres for them that bear rule, and her
stature was exalted among the branches:
and she saw her height in the multitude
of her branches.

12 But she was plucked up in wrath, and
cast on the ground, and the burning wind
dried up her fruit: her strong rods are
withered, and dried up: the fire hath
devoured her.

13 And now she is transplanted into the
desert, in a land not passable, and dry.

14 And a fire is gone out from a rod of
her branches, which hath devoured her
fruit: so that she now hath no strong
rod, to be a sceptre of rulers. This is a
lamentation, and it shall be for a lamentation.

Chapter 20

1 And it came to pass in the seventh
year, in the fifth month, the tenth
day of the month: there came men of the
ancients of Israel to inquire of the Lord,
and they sat before me.

2 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

3 Son of man, speak to the ancients of
Israel, and say to them: Thus saith the
Lord God: Are you come to inquire of
me? As I live, I will not answer you,
saith the Lord God.

4 If thou judgest them, if thou judgest,
son of man, declare to them the
abominations of their fathers.

5 And say to them: Thus saith the Lord
God : In the day when I chose Israel, and
lifted up my hand for the race of the
house of Jacob: and appeared to them in
the land of Egypt, and lifted up my hand
for them, saying: I am the Lord your
God:

6 In that day I lifted up my hand for
them, to bring them out of the land of
Egypt, into a land which I had provided
for them, flowing with milk and honey,
which excelleth amongst all lands.

7 And I said to them: Let every man
cast away the scandals of his eyes, and
defile not yourselves with the idols of
Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

8 But they provoked me, and would
not hearken to me: they did not every
man cast away the abominations of his
eyes, neither did they forsake the idols
of Egypt: and I said I would pour out
my indignation upon them, and accomplish
my wrath against them in the midst
of the land of Egypt.

9 But I did otherwise for my name's sake,
that it might not be violated before the
nations, in the midst of whom they were,
and among whom I made myself known
to them, to bring them out of the land
of Egypt.

10 Therefore I brought them out from
the land of Egypt, and brought them into
the desert.

11 And I gave them my statutes, and
I shewed them my judgments, which if a
man do, he shall live in them.

12 Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths,
to be a sign between me and them:
and that they might know that I am the
Lord that sanctify them.

13 But the house of Israel provoked me
in the desert: they walked not in my
statutes, and they cast away my
judgments, which if a man do he shall live in
them: and they grievously violated my
sabbaths. I said therefore that I would
pour out my indignation upon them in
the desert, and would consume them.

14 But I spared them for the sake of
my name, lest it should be profaned
before the nations, from which I brought
them out, in their sight.

15 So I lifted up my hand over them
in the desert, not to bring them into the
land which I had given them flowing with
milk and honey, the best of all lands.

16 Because they cast off my judgments,
and walked not in my statutes, and
violated my sabbaths: for their heart went
after idols.

17 Yet my eye spared them, so that I
destroyed them not: neither did I
consume them in the desert.

18 And I said to their children in the
wilderness: Walk not in the statutes of
your fathers, and observe not their
judgments, nor be ye defiled with their
idols:

19 I am the Lord your God: walk ye in
my statutes, and observe my judgments,
and do them.

20 And sanctify my sabbaths, that they
may be a sign between me and you: and
that you may know that I am the Lord
your God.

21 But their children provoked me, they
walked not in my commandments, nor
observed my judgments to do them: which
if a man do, he shell live in them: and
they violated my sabbaths: and I threatened
to pour out my indignation upon
them, and to accomplish my wrath in
them in the desert.

22 But I turned away my hand, and
wrought for my name's sake, that it might
not be violated before the nations, out of
which I brought them forth in their
sight.

23 Again I lifted up my hand upon them
in the wilderness, to disperse them among
the nations, and scatter them through the
countries :

24 Because they had not done my judgments,
and had cast off my statutes, and
had violated my sabbaths, and their eyes
had been after the idols of their fathers.

25 Therefore I also gave them statutes
that were not good, and judgments, in
which they shall not live.

26 And I polluted them in their own
gifts, when they offered all that opened
the womb, for their offences: and they
shall know that I am the Lord.

27 Wherefore speak to the house of
Israel, O son of man, and say to them:
Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in
this also your fathers blasphemed me,
when they had despised and contemned
me;

28 And I had brought them into the
land, for which I lifted up my hand to
give it them: they saw every high hill, and
every shady tree, and there they sacrificed
their victims: and there they presented
the provocation of their offerings, and
there they set their sweet odours, and
poured forth their libations.

29 And I said to them: What meaneth
the high place to which you go? and the
name thereof was called High-place even
to this day.

30 Wherefore say to the house of Israel:
Thus saith the Lord God: Verily, you are
defiled in the way of your fathers, and
you commit fornication with their
abominations.

31 And you defile yourselves with all
your: idols unto this day, in the offering
of your gifts, when you make your
children pass through the fire: and shall I
answer you, O house of Israel? As I live,
saith the Lord God, I will not answer
you.

32 Neither shall the thought of your
mind come to pass, by which you say:
We will be as the Gentiles, and as the
families of the earth, to worship stocks
and stones.

33 As I live, saith the Lord God, I will
reign over you with a strong hand, and
with a stretched out arm, and with fury
poured out.

34 And I will bring you out from the
people, and I will gather you out of the
countries, in which you are scattered, I
will reign over you with a strong hand,
and with a stretched out arm, and with
fury poured out.

35 And I will bring you into the wilderness
of people, and there will I plead with
you face to face.

36 As I pleaded against your fathers in
the desert of the land of Egypt; even so
will I judge you, saith the Lord God.

37 And I will make you subject to my
sceptre, and will bring you into the
bands of the covenant.

38 And I will pick out from among you
the transgressors, and the wicked, and
will bring them out of the land where
they sojourn, and they shall not enter
into the land of Israel: and you shall
know that I am the Lord.

39 And as for you, O house of Israel:
thus saith the Lord God: Walk ye every
one after your idols, and serve them.
But if in this also you hear me not, but
defile my holy name any more with your
gifts, and with your idols;

40 In my holy mountain, in the high
mountain of Israel, saith the Lord God,
there shall all the house of Israel serve
me; all of them I say, in the land in
which they shall please me, and there will
I require your firstfruits, and the chief of
your tithes with all your sanctifications.

41 I will accept of you for an odour of
sweetness, when I shall have brought you
out from the people, and shall have
gathered you out of the lands into which you
are scattered, and I will be sanctified in
you in the sight of the nations.

42 And you shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall have brought you into
the land of Israel, into the land for which
I lifted up my hand to give it to your
fathers.

43 And there you shall remember your
ways, and all your wicked doings with
which you have been defiled; and you
shall be displeased with yourselves in
your own sight, for all your wicked deeds
which you committed.

44 And you shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall have done well by you
for my own name's sake, and not according
to your evil ways, nor according to
your wicked deeds, O house of Israel,
saith the Lord God.

45 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying :

46 Son of man, set thy face against the
way of the south, and drop towards the
south, and prophesy against the forest of
the south field.

47 And any to the south forest: Hear
the word of the Lord: Thus saith the
Lord God: Behold I will kindle a fire in
thee, and will burn in thee every green
tree, and every dry tree: the dame of
the fire shall not be quenched: and every
face shall be burned in it, from the south
even to the north.

48 And all flesh shall see, that I the
Lord have kindled it, and it shall not be
quenched.

49 And I said: Ah, ah, ah, O Lord God:
they say of me: Doth not this man speak
by parables?

Chapter 21

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

2 Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem,
and let thy speech flow towards
the holy places, and prophesy against
the land of Israel:

3 And say to the land of Israel: Thus
saith the Lord God: Behold I come
against thee, and I will draw forth my
sword out of its sheath, and will cut off
in thee the just, and the wicked.

4 And forasmuch as I have cut off in
thee the just, and the wicked, therefore
shall my sword go forth out of its sheath
against all flesh, from the south even to
the north.

5 That all flesh may know that I the
Lord have drawn my sword out of its
sheath not to be turned back.

6 And thou, son of man, mourn with the
breaking of thy loins, and with bitterness
sigh before them.

7 And when they shall say to thee:
Why mournest thou? thou shalt say:
For that which I hear: because it
cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all
hands shall be made feeble, and every
spirit shall faint, and water shall run
down every knee: behold it cometh,
and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

8 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

9 Son of man, prophesy, and say: Thus
saith the Lord God: Say: The sword, the
sword is sharpened, and furbished.

10 It is sharpened to kill victims: it is
furbished that it may glitter: thou
removest the sceptre of my son, thou hast
cut down every tree.

11 And I have given it to be furbished,
that it may be handled: this sword is
sharpened, and it is furbished, that it
may be in the hand of the slayer.

12 Cry, and howl, 0 son of man, for this
sword is upon my people, it is upon all
the princes of Israel, that are fled: they
are delivered up to the sword with my
people, strike therefore upon thy thigh,

13 Because it is tried: and that when it
shall overthrow the sceptre, and it shall
not be, saith the Lord God.

14 Thou therefore, O son of man,
prophesy, and strike thy hands together,
and let the sword be doubled, and let
the sword of the slain be tripled: this
is the sword of a great slaughter, that
maketh them stand amazed,

15 And languish in heart, and that
multiplieth ruins. In all their gates I have
set the dread of the sharp sword, the
sword that is furbished to glitter, that is
made ready for slaughter.

16 Be thou sharpened, go to the right
hand, or to the left, which way soever
thou hast a mind to set thy face.

17 And I will clap my hands together,
and will satisfy my indignation: I the
Lord have spoken.

18 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

19 And thou son of man, set thee two
ways, for the sword of the king of Babylon
to come: both shall come forth out
of one land: and with his hand he shall
draw lots, he shall consult at the head of
the way of the city.

20 Thou shalt make a way that the
sword may come to Rabbath of the
children of Ammon, and to Juda unto
Jerusalem the strong city.

21 For the king of Babylon stood in the
highway, at the head of two ways,
seeking divination, shuffling arrows: he
inquired of the idols, and consulted entrails.

22 On his right hand was the divination
for Jerusalem, to set battering rams, to
open the mouth in slaughter, to lift up
the voice in howling, to set engines
against the gates, to cast up a mount, to
build forts.

23 And he shall be in their eyes as one
consulting the oracle in vain, and imitating
the leisure of sabbaths: but he will
call to remembrance the iniquity that
they may be taken.

24 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Because you have remembered your
iniquity, and have discovered your
prevarications, and your sins have appeared
in all your devices: because, I say, you
have remembered, you shall be taken
with the hand.

25 But thou profane wicked prince of
Israel, whose day is come that hath been
appointed in the time of iniquity:

26 Thus saith the Lord God: Remove
the diadem, take off the crown: is it not
this that hath exalted the low one, and
brought down him that was high?

27 I will shew it to be iniquity, iniquity,
iniquity: but this was not done till he
came to whom judgment belongeth, and
I will give it him.

28 And thou son of man, prophesy, and
say: Thus saith the Lord God concerning
the children of Ammon, and concerning
their reproach, and thou shalt say:
sword, O sword, come out of the
scabbard to kill, be furbished to destroy, and
to glitter,

29 Whilst they see vain things in thy
regard, and they divine lies: to bring
thee upon the necks of the wicked that
are wounded, whose appointed day is
come in the time of iniquity.

30 Return into thy sheath. I will judge
thee in the place wherein thou wast
created, in the land of thy nativity.

31 And I will pour out upon thee my
indignation: in the fire of my rage will I
blow upon thee, and will give thee into
the hands of men that are brutish and
contrive thy destruction.

32 Thou shalt be fuel for the fire, thy
blood shall be in the midst of the land,
thou shalt be forgotten: for I the Lord
have spoken it.

Chapter 22

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

2 And thou son of man, dost thou not
judge, dost thou not judge the city of
blood?

3 And thou shalt shew her all her
abominations, and shalt say: Thus saith the Lord
God: This is the city that sheddeth blood
in the midst of her, that her time may
come: and that hath made idols against
herself, to defile herself.

4 Thou art become guilty in thy blood
which thou hast shed: and thou art
defiled in thy idols which thou hast made:
and thou hast made thy days to draw
near, and hast brought on the time of
thy years: therefore have I made thee a
reproach to the Gentiles, and a mockery
to all countries.

5 Those that are near, and those that
are far from thee, shall triumph over
thee: thou filthy one, infamous, great in
destruction.

6 Behold the princes of Israel, every
one hath employed his arm in thee to
shed blood.

7 They have abused father and mother
in thee, they have oppressed the stranger
in the midst of thee, they have grieved
the fatherless and widow in thee.

8 Thou hast despised my sanctuaries,
and profaned my sabbaths.

9 Slanderers have been in thee to shed
blood, and they have eaten upon the
mountains in thee, they have committed
wickedness in the midst of thee.

10 They have discovered the nakedness
of their father in thee, they have
humbled the uncleanness of the menstruous
woman in thee.

11 And every one hath committed
abomination with his neighbour's wife,
and the father in law hath wickedly
defiled his daughter in law, the brother
hath oppressed his sister the daughter of
his father in thee.

12 They have taken gifts in thee to shed
blood: thou hast taken usury and
increase, and hast covetously oppressed
thy neighbours: and then hast forgotten
me, saith the Lord God.

13 Behold, I have clapped my hands at
thy covetousness, which thou hast
exercised and at the blood that hath been
shed: In the midst of thee.

14 Shall thy heart endure, or shall thy
hands prevail ill the days which I will
bring upon thee: I the Lord have spoken,
and will do it.

15 And I will disperse thee in the
nations, and will scatter thee among the
countries, and I will put an end to thy
uncleanness in thee.

16 And I will possess thee in the sight
of the Gentiles, and thou shalt know that
I am the Lord.

17 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

18 Son of man, the house of Israel is
become dress to me: all these are brass,
and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst
of the furnace: they are become the
dress of silver.

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Because you are all turned into dress,
therefore behold I will gather you
together in the midst of Jerusalem.

20 As they gather silver, and brass, and
tin, and iron, and lead in the midst of
the furnace: that I may kindle a fire in
it to melt it: so will I gather you
together in my fury and in my wrath, and
will take my rest, and I will melt you
down.

21 And I will gather you together, and
will burn you in the fire of my wrath, and
you shall be melted in the midst thereof.

22 As silver is melted in the midst of
the furnace, so shall you be in the midst
thereof: and you shall know that I am
the Lord, when I have poured out my
indignation upon you.

23 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

24 Son of man, say to her: Thou art a
land that is unclean, and not rained upon
in the day of wrath.

25 There is a conspiracy of prophets in
the midst thereof: like a lion that roareth
and catcheth the prey, they have
devoured souls, they have taken riches and
hire, they have made many widows in
the midst thereof.

26 Her priests have despised my law,
and have defiled my sanctuaries: they
have put no difference between holy and
profane: nor have distinguished between
the polluted and the clean: and they have
turned away their eyes from my sabbaths,
and I was profaned in the midst of them.

27 Her princes in the midst of her, are
like wolves ravening the prey to shed
blood, and to destroy souls, and to run
after gains through covetousness.

28 And her prophets have daubed them
without tempering the mortar, seeing vain
things, and divining lies unto them,
saying: Thus saith the Lord God: when the
Lord hath not spoken.

29 The people of the land have used
oppression, and committed robbery: they
afflicted the needy and poor, and they
oppressed the stranger by calumny
without judgment.

30 And I sought among them for a man
that might set up a hedge, and stand in
the gap before me in favour of the land,
that I might not destroy it: and I found
none.

31 And I poured out my indignation
upon them, in the fire of my wrath I
consumed them: I have rendered their way
upon their own head, saith the Lord
God.

Chapter 23

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:
Son of man, there were two women,
daughters of one mother.

3 And they committed fornication in
Egypt, in their youth they committed
fornication: there were their breasts
pressed down, and the teats of their
virginity were bruised.

4 And their names were Oolla the elder,
and Ooliba her younger sister: and I
took them, and they bore sons and
daughters. Now for their names,
Samaria is Oolla, and Jerusalem is Ooliba.

5 And Oolla committed fornication
against me, and doted on her lovers, on
the Assyrians that came to her,

6 Who were clothed with blue, princes,
and rulers, beautiful youths, all horsemen,
mounted upon horses.

7 And she committed her fornications
with those chosen men, all sons of the
Assyrians: and she defiled herself with
the uncleanness of all them on whom she
doted.

8 Moreover also she did not forsake her
fornications which she had committed in
Egypt: for they also lay with her in her
youth, and they bruised the breasts of
her virginity, and poured out their
fornication upon her.

9 Therefore have I delivered her into
the hands of her lovers, into the hands
of the sons of the Assyrians, upon whose
lust she doted.

10 They discovered her disgrace, took
away her sons and daughters, and slew
her with the sword: and they became
infamous women, and they executed
judgments in her.

11 And when her sister Ooliba saw this,
she was mad with lust more than she:
and she carried her fornication beyond
the fornication of her sister.

12 Impudently prostituting herself to
the children of the Assyrians, the princes,
and rulers that came to her, clothed with
divers colours, to the horsemen that rode
upon horses, and to young men all of
great beauty.

13 And I saw that she was defiled, and
that they both took one way.

14 And she increased her fornications:
and when she had seen men painted on
the wall, the images of the Chaldeans
set forth in colours,

15 And girded with girdles about their
reins, and with dyed turbans on their
heads, the resemblance of all the
captains, the likeness of the sons of Babylon,
and of the land of the Chaldeans wherein
they were born,

16 She doted upon them with the lust
of her eyes, and she sent messengers to
them into Chaldea.

17 And when the sons of Babylon were
come to her to the bed of love, they
defiled her with their fornications, and she
was polluted by them, and her soul was
glutted with them.

18 And she discovered her fornications,
and discovered her disgrace: and my
soul was alienated from her, as my soul
was alienated from her sister.

19 For she multiplied her fornications,
remembering the days of her youth, in
which she played the harlot in the land
of Egypt.

20 And she was mad with lust after
lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh
of asses: and whose issue as the issue
of horses.

21 And thou hast renewed the wickedness
of thy youth, when thy breasts were
pressed in Egypt, and the papa of thy
virginity broken.

22 Therefore, Ooliba, thus saith the
Lord God: Behold I will raise up against
thee all thy lovers with whom thy soul
hath been glutted: and I will gather
them together against thee round about.

23 The children of Babylon, and all the
Chaldeans, the nobles, and the kings,
and princes, all the sons of the Assyrians,
beautiful young men, all the captains,
and rulers, the princes of princes,
and the renowned horsemen.

24 And they shall come upon thee well
appointed with chariot and wheel, a
multitude of people: they shall be armed
against thee on every side with
breastplate, and buckler, and helmet: and I
will set judgment before them, and they
shall judge thee by their judgments.

25 And I will set my jealousy against
thee, which they shall execute upon thee
with fury: they shall cut off thy nose
and thy ears: and what remains shall
fall by the sword: they shall take thy
sons, and thy daughters, and thy residue
shall be devoured by fire.

26 And they shall strip thee of thy
garments, and take away the instruments
of thy glory.

27 And I will put an end to thy
wickedness in thee, and thy fornication brought
out of the land of Egypt: neither shalt
thou lift up thy eyes to them, nor
remember Egypt any more.

28 For thus saith the Lord God:
Behold, I will deliver thee into the hands
of them whom thou hatest, into their
hands with whom thy soul hath been
glutted.

29 And they shall deal with thee in
hatred, and they shall take away all thy
labours, and shall let thee go naked,
and full of disgrace, and the disgrace of
thy fornication shall be discovered, thy
wickedness, and thy fornications.

30 They have done these things to thee,
because thou hast played the harlot with
the nations among which thou wast
defiled with their idols.

31 Thou hast walked in the way of thy
sister, and I will give her cup into thy
hand.

36 And the Lord spoke to me, saying:
Son of man, dost thou judge Oolla, and
Ooliba, and dost thou declare to them
their wicked deeds?

37 Because they have committed
adultery, and blood is in their hands, and
they have committed fornication with
their idols: moreover also their children,
whom they bore to me, they have
offered to them to be devoured.

38 Yea, and they have done this to me.
They polluted my sanctuary on the same
day, and profaned my sabbaths.

39 And when they sacrificed their
children to their idols, and went into my
sanctuary the same day to profane it:
they did these things even in the midst
of my house.

40 They sent for men coming from afar,
to whom they had sent a messenger: and
behold they came: for whom thou didst
wash thyself, and didst paint thy eyes,
and wast adorned with women's
ornaments.

41 Thou sattest on a very fine bed, and
a table was decked before thee:
whereupon thou didst set my incense, and my
ointment.

42 And there was in her the voice of a
multitude rejoicing: and to some that
were brought of the multitude of men,
and that came from the desert, they put
bracelets on their hands, and beautiful
crowns on their heads.

43 And I said to her that was worn out
in her adulteries: Now will this woman
still continue in her fornication.

44 And they went in to her, as to a
harlot: so went they in unto Oolla, and
Ooliba, wicked women.

45 They therefore are k just men: these
shall judge them as adulteresses are
judged, and as shedders of blood are
judged: because they are adulteresses,
and blood is in their hands.

46 For thus saith the Lord God: Bring
a multitude upon them, and deliver them
over to tumult and rapine:

47 And lee the people stone them with
stones, and let them be stabbed with
their swords: they shall kill their sons
and daughters, and their houses they
shall burn with fire.

48 And I will take away wickedness out
of the land: and all women shall learn,
not to do according to the wickedness of
them.

49 And they shall render your wickedness
upon you, and you shall bear the
sins of your idols: and you shall know
that I am the Lord God.

Chapter 24

1 And the word of the Lord came to me
in the ninth year, in the tenth
month, the tenth day of the month,
saying:

2 Son of man, write thee the name of
this day, on which the king of Babylon
hath set himself against Jerusalem to
day.

3 And thou shalt speak by a figure a
parable to the provoking house, and say
to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Set
on a pot, set it on, I say, and put water
into it.

4 Heap together into if the pieces
thereof, every good piece, the thigh and
the shoulder, choice pieces and full of
bones.

5 Take the fattest of the flock, and lay
together piles of bones under it: the
seething thereof is boiling hot, and the
bones thereof are thoroughly sodden in
the midst of it.

6 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose
rust is in it, and its rust is not gone out
of it: cast it out piece by piece, there
hath no lot fallen upon it.

7 For her blood is in the midst of her,
she hath shed it upon the smooth rock:
she hath not shed it upon the ground,
that it might be covered with dust.

8 And that I might bring my indignation
upon her, and take my vengeance: I
have shed her blood upon the smooth
rock, that it should not be covered.

9 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Woe to the bloody city, of which I will
make a great bonfire.

10 Heap together the bones, which I
will burn with Are: the flesh shall be
consumed, and the whole composition
shall be sodden, and the bones shall be
consumed.

11 Then set it empty upon burning coals,
that it may be hot, and the brass thereof
may be melted: and let the filth of it be
melted in the midst thereof, and let the
rust of it be consumed.

12 Great pains have been taken, and the
great rust thereof is not gone out, not
even by fire.

13 Thy uncleanness is execrable: be-
cause I desired to cleanse thee, and thou
art not cleansed from thy filthiness:
neither shalt thou be cleansed, before I cause
my indignation to rest in thee.

14 I the Lord have spoken: it shall
come to pass, and I will do it: I will not
pass by, nor spare, nor be pacified: I
will judge thee according to thy ways,
and according to thy doings, saith the
Lord.

15 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

16 Son of man, behold I take from thee
the desire of thy eyes with a stroke: and
thou shalt not lament, nor weep : neither
shall thy tears run down.

17 Sigh in silence, make no mourning
for the dead: let the tire of thy head be
upon thee, and thy shoes on thy feet, and
cover not thy face, nor eat the meat of
mourners.

18 So I spoke to the people in the
morning, and my wife died in the
evening: and I did in the morning as he had
commanded me.

19 And the people said to me: Why
dost thou not tell us what these things
mean that thou doest?

20 And I said to them: The word of the
Lord came to me, saying:

21 Speak to the house of Israel: Thus
saith the Lord God: Behold I will
profane my sanctuary, the glory of your
realm, and the thing that your eyes de
sire, and for which your soul feareth:
your sons, and your daughters, whom
you have left, shall fall by the sword.

22 And you shall do as I have done:
you shall not cover your faces, nor shall
you eat the meat of mourners.

23 You shall have crowns on your heads,
and shoes on your feet: you shall not
lament nor weep, but you shall pine away
for your iniquities, and every one shall
sigh with his brother.

24 And Ezechiel shall be unto you for a
sign of things to come: according to all
that he hath done, so shall you do, when
this shall come to pass: and you shall
know that I am the Lord God.

25 And thou, O son of man, behold in
the day wherein I will take away from
them their strength, and the joy of their
glory, and the desire of their eyes, upon
which their souls rest, their sons and
their daughters.

26 In that day when he that escapeth
shall come to thee, to tell thee:

27 In that day, I say, shall thy mouth
be opened to him that hath escaped, and
thou shalt speak, and shalt be silent no
more: and thou shalt be unto them for
a sign of things to come, and you shall
know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 25

1 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

2 Son of man, set thy face against the
children of Ammon, and thou shalt
prophesy of them.

3 And thou shalt say to the children
of Ammon: Hear ye the word of the
Lord God: Thus saith the Lord God:
Because thou hast said: Ha, ha, upon my
sanctuary, because it was profaned: and
upon the land of Israel, because it was
laid waste: and upon the house of Juda,
because they are led into captivity:

4 Therefore will I deliver thee to the
men of the east for an inheritance, and
they shall place their sheepcotes in thee,
and shall set up their tents in thee: they
shall eat thy fruits: and they shall drink
thy milk.

5 And I will make Rabbath a stable for
camels, and the children of Ammon a
couching place for flocks: and you shall
know that I am the Lord.

6 For thus saith the Lord God: Because
thou hast clapped thy hands and stamped
with thy foot, and hast rejoiced with all
thy heart against the land of Israel:

7 Therefore behold I: will stretch forth
my hand upon thee, and will deliver thee
to be the spoil of nations, and will cut
thee off from among the people, and
destroy thee out of the lands, and break
thee in pieces: and thou shalt know that
I am the Lord.

8 Thus saith the Lord God: Because
Moab and Seir have said: Behold the
house of Juda is like all other nations:

9 Therefore behold I will open the shoulder
of Moab from the cities, from his
cities, I say, and his borders, the noble
cities of the land of Bethiesimoth, and
Beelmeon, and Cariathaim,

10 To the people of the east with the
children of Ammon, and I will give it
them for an inheritance: that there may
be no more any remembrance of the
children of Ammon among the nations.

11 And I will execute judgments in
Moab: and they shall know that I am the
Lord.

12 Thus saith the Lord God: Because
Edom hath taken vengeance to revenge
herself of the children of Juda, and hath
greatly offended, and hath sought
revenge of them:

13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
I will stretch forth my hand upon Edom,
and will take away out of it man and
beast, and will make it desolate from the
south: and they that are in Dedan shall
fall by the sword.

14 And I will lay my vengeance upon
Edom by the hand of my people Israel:
and they shall do in Edom according to
my wrath, and my fury: and they shall
know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.

15 Thus saith the Lord God: Because
the Philistines have taken vengeance,
and have revenged themselves with all
their mind, destroying and satisfying old
enmities :

16 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Behold I will stretch forth my hand upon
the Philistines, and will kill the killers,
and will destroy the remnant of the sea
coast.

17 And I will execute great vengeance
upon them, rebuking them in fury: and
they shall know that I am the Lord, when
I shall lay my vengeance upon them.

Chapter 26

1 And it came to pass in the eleventh
year, the first day of the month,
that the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

2 Son of man, because Tyre hath said
of Jerusalem: Aha, the gates of the
people are broken, she is turned to me: I
shall be filled, now she is laid waste.

3 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Behold I come against thee, O Tyre, and
I will cause many nations to come up to
thee, as the waves of the sea rise up.

4 And they shall break down the walls
of Tyre, and destroy the towers thereof:
and I will scrape her dust from her, and
make her like a smooth rock.

5 She shall be a drying place for nets
in the midst of the sea, because I have
spoken it, saith the Lord God: and she
shall be a spoil to the nations.

6 Her daughters also that are in the field,
shall be slain by the sword: and they
shall know that I am the Lord.

7 For thus saith the Lord God: Behold
I will bring against Tyre Nabuchodonosor
king of Babylon, the king of kings,
from the north, with horses, and chariots,
and horsemen, and companies, and much
people.

8 Thy daughters that are in the field,
he shall kill with the sword: and he shall
compass thee with forts, and shall cast
up a mount round about: and he shall
lift up the buckler against thee.

9 And he shall set engines of mar and
battering rams against thy walls, and
shall destroy thy towers with his arms.

10 By reason of the multitude of his
horses, their dust shall cover thee: thy
walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen,
and wheels, and chariots, when they
shall go in at thy gates, as by the
entrance of a city that is destroyed.

11 With the hoofs of his horses he shall
tread down all thy streets: thy people
he shall kill with the sword, and thy
famous statues shall fall to the ground.

12 They shall waste thy riches, they shall
make a spoil of thy merchandise: and
they shall destroy thy walls, and pull
down thy fine houses: and they shall lay
thy stones and thy timber, and thy dust
in the midst of the waters.

13 And I will make the multitude of
thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy
harps shall be heard no more.

14 And I will make thee like a naked
rock, then shalt be a drying place for
nets, neither shalt thou be built any more:
for I have spoken it, saith. the Lord God.

15 Thus saith the Lord God to Tyre:
Shall not the islands shake at the sound of
thy fall, and the groans of thy slain when
they shall be killed in the midst of thee?

16 Then all the princes of the sea shall
come down from their thrones: and take
off their robes, and cast away their broidered
garments, and be clothed with
astonishment: they shall sit on the ground,
and with amazement shall wonder at thy
sudden fall.

17 And taking up a lamentation over
thee, they shall sag to thee: How art
thou fallen, that dwellest in the sea,
renowned city that wast strong in the sea,
with thy inhabitants whom all did dread?

18 Now shall the ships be astonished in
the day of thy terror: and the islands in
the sea shall be troubled because no one
cometh out of thee.

19 For thus saith the Lord God: When
I shall make thee a desolate city like the
cities that are not inhabited: and shall
bring the deep upon thee, and many
waters shall cover thee:

20 And when I shall bring thee down
with those that descend into the pit to
the everlasting people, and shall set thee
in the lowest parts of the earth, as places
desolate of old, with them that are
brought down into the pit, that thou be
not inhabited: and when I shall give
glory in the land of the living,

21 I will bring thee to nothing, and
thou shalt not be, and if thou be sought
for, thou shalt not be found any more
for ever, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 27

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

2 Thou therefore, O son of man, take
up a lamentation for Tyre:

3 And say to Tyre that dwelleth at the
entry of the sea, being the mart of the
people for many islands: Thus saith the
Lord God: O Tyre, thou hast said: I am
of perfect beauty,

4 And situate in the heart of the sea.
Thy neighbours, that built thee, have
perfected thy beauty:

5 With fir trees of Sanir they have built
thee with all sea planks: they have
taken cedars from Libanus to make thee
masts.

6 They have cut thy oars out of the oaks
of Basan: and they have made thee
benches of Indian ivory and cabins with
things brought from the islands of Italy.

7 Fine broidered linen from Egypt was
woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy
mast: blue and purple from the islands
of Elisa, were made thy covering.

8 The inhabitants of Sidon, and the
Arabians were thy rowers : thy wise men,
O Tyre, were thy pilots.

9 The ancients of Gebal, and the wise
men thereof furnished mariners for the
service of thy various furniture: all the
ships of the sea, and their mariners were
thy factors.

10 The Persians, and Lydians, and the
Libyans were thy soldiers in thy army:
they hung up the buckler and the helmet
in thee for thy ornament.

11 The men of Arad were with thy army
upon thy walls round about: the Pygmeans
also that were in thy towers, hung
up their quivers on thy walls round
about: they perfected thy beauty.

12 The Carthaginians thy merchants
supplied thy fairs with a multitude of all
kinds of riches, with silver, iron, tin, and
lead.

13 Greece, Thubal, and Mosoch, they
were thy merchants: they brought to
thy people slaves and vessels of brass.

14 From the house of Thogorma they
brought horses, and horsemen, and mules
to thy market.

15 The men of Dedan were thy
merchants: many islands were the traffic of
thy hand, they exchanged for thy price
teeth of ivory and ebony.

16 The Syrian was thy merchant: by
reason of the multitude of thy works,
they set forth precious stones, and
purple, and broidered works, and fine linen,
and silk, and chodchod in thy market.

17 Juda and the land of Israel, they
were thy merchants with the best corn:
they set forth balm, and honey, and oil,
and rosin in thy fairs.

18 The men of Damascus were thy
merchants in the multitude of thy works, in
the multitude of divers riches, in rich
wine, in wool of the best colour.

19 Dan, and Greece, and Mosel have
set forth in thy marts wrought iron:
stacte, and calamus were in thy market.

20 The men of Dedan were thy
merchants in tapestry for seats.

21 Arabia, and all the princes of Cedar,
they were the merchants of thy hand:
thy merchants came to thee with lambs,
and rants, and kids.

22 The sellers of Saba, and Reema, they
were thy merchants: with all the best
spices, and precious stones, and gold,
which they set forth in thy market.

23 Haran, and Chene, and Eden were thy
merchants; Saba, Assur, and Chelmad
sold to thee.

24 They were thy merchants in divers
manners, with bales of blue cloth, and of
embroidered work, and of precious riches,
which were wrapped up and bound with
cords: they had cedars also in thy
merchandise.

25 The ships of the sea, were thy chief
in thy merchandise : and thou wast
replenished, and glorified exceedingly in
the heart of the sea.

26 Thy rowers have brought thee into
great waters: the south wind hath
broken thee in the heart of the sea.

27 Thy riches, and thy treasures, and
thy manifold furniture, thy mariners,
and thy pilots, who kept thy goods, and
were chief over thy people: thy men of
war also, that were in thee, with all thy
multitude that is in the midst of thee:
shall fall in the heart of the sea in the
day of thy ruin.

28 Thy fleets shall be troubled at the
sound of the cry of thy pilots.

29 And all that handled the oar shall
come down from their ships: the mariners,
and all the pilots of the sea shall stand
upon the land:

30 And they shall mourn over thee with
a loud voice, and shall cry bitterly: and
they shall cast up dust upon their heads,
and shall be sprinkled with ashes.

31 And they shall shave themselves bald
for thee, and shall be girded with
haircloth: and they shall weep for thee with
bitterness of soul, with most bitter weeping.

32 And they shall take up a mournful
song for thee, and snail lament thee:
What city is like Tyre, which is become
silent in the midst of the sea?

33 Which by thy merchandise that went
from thee by sea didst fill many people:
which by the multitude of thy riches,
and of thy people didst enrich the kings
of the earth.

34 Now thou art destroyed by the sea,
thy riches are in the bottom of the
waters, and all the multitude that was in
the midst of thee is fallen.

35 All the inhabitants of the islands are
astonished at thee: and all their kings
being struck with the storm have changed
their countenance.

36 The merchants of people have hissed
at thee: thou art brought to nothing, and
thou shalt never be any more.

Chapter 28

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre:
Thus saith the Lord God: Because thy
heart is lifted up, and thou hast said: I
am God, and T sit in the chair of God in
the heart of the sea: whereas thou art a
man, and not God: and hast set thy heart
as if it were the heart of God.

5 By the greatness of thy wisdom, and
by thy traffic thou hast increased thy
strength: and thy heart is lifted up with
thy strength.

6 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God:
Because thy heart is lifted up as the
heart of God:

7 Therefore behold, I will bring upon
thee strangers the strongest of the
nations: and they shall draw their swords
against the beauty of thy wisdom, and
they shall defile thy beauty.

8 They shall kill thee, and bring thee
down: and thou shalt die the death of
them that are slain in the heart of the sea.

9 Wilt thou yet say before them that
slay thee: I am God; whereas thou art a
man, and not God, in the hand of them
that slay thee?

10 Thou shalt die the death of the
uncircumcised by the hand of strangers:
for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

11 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying: Son of man, take up a
lamentation upon the king of Tyre:

12 And say to him: Thus saith the Lord
God: Thou wast the seal of resemblance,
full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

13 Thou wast in the pleasures of the
paradise of God: every precious stone
teas thy covering: the sardius, the topaz,
and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the
onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and
the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the
work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were
prepared in the day that thou wast created.

14 Thou a cherub stretched out, and
protecting, and I set thee in the holy
mountain of God, thou hast walked in
the midst of the stones of fire.

15 Thou wast perfect in thy ways from
the day of thy creation, until iniquity
was found in thee.

16 By the multitude of thy merchandise,
thy inner parts were filled with iniquity,
and thou hast sinned: and I cast thee
out from the mountain of God, and
destroyed thee, O covering cherub, out of
the midst of the stones of fire.

17 And thy heart was lifted up with
thy beauty: thou best lost thy wisdom
in thy beauty, I have cast thee to the
ground: I have set thee before the
face of kings, that they might behold
thee.

18 Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by
the multitude of thy iniquities, and by
the iniquity of thy traffic: therefore I
will bring forth a fire from the midst of
thee, to devour thee, and I will make
thee as ashes upon the earth in the sight
of all that see thee.

19 All that shall see thee among the
nations, shall be astonished at thee: thou
art brought to nothing, and thou shalt
never be any more.

20 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

21 Son of man, set thy face against
Sidon: and thou shalt prophesy of it,

22 And shalt say: Thus saith the Lord
God: Behold I come against thee, Sidon,
and I will be glorified in the midst of
thee: and they shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall execute judgments in
her, and shall be sanctified in her.

23 And I will send into her pestilence,
and blood in her streets: and they shall
fall being slain by the sword on all sides
in the midst thereof: and they shall
know that I am the Lord.

24 And the house of Israel shall have
no more a stumblingblock of bitterness,
nor a thorn causing pain on every side
round about them, of them that are
against them: and they shall know that
I am the Lord God.

25 Thus saith the Lord God: When I
shall have gathered together the house
of Israel out of the people among whom
they are scattered: I will be sanctified in
them before the Gentiles: and they shall
dwell in their own land, which I gave to
my servant Jacob.

26 And they shall dwell therein secure,
and they shall build houses, and shall
plant vineyards, and shall dwell with
confidence, when I shall have executed
judgments upon all that are their enemies
round about: and they shall know that I
am the Lord their God.

Chapter 29

1 In the tenth year, the tenth month,
the eleventh day of the month, the
word of the Lord came to me, saying:

2 Son of man, set thy face against Pharao
king of Egypt: and thou shalt
prophesy of him, and of all Egypt:

3 Speak, and say: Thus saith the Lord
God: Behold, I come against thee, Pharao
king of Egypt, thou great dragon that
liest in the midst of thy rivers, and sayest:
The river is mine, and I made myself.

4 But I will put a bridle in thy jaws:
and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to
stick to thy scales: and I will draw thee
out of the midst of thy rivers, and all thy
fish shall stick to thy scales.

5 And I will cast thee forth into the
desert, and all the fish of thy river: thou
shalt fall upon the face of the earth,
thou shalt not be taken up, nor gathered
together: I have given thee for meat to
the beasts of the earth, and to the fowls
of the air.

6 And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall
know that I am the Lord: because thou
hast been a staff of a reed to the house
of Israel.

7 When they took hold of thee with the
hand thou didst break, and rent all their
shoulder: and when they leaned upon
thee, thou brokest, and weakenest all
their loins.

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Behold, I will bring the sword upon thee:
and cut off man and beast out of thee.

9 And the land of Egypt shall become a
desert, and a wilderness: and they shall
know that I am the Lord: because thou
hast said: The river is mine, and I made

10 Therefore, behold I come against thee,
and thy rivers: and I will make the land
of Egypt utterly desolate, and wasted by
the sword, from the tower of Syene, even
to the borders of Ethiopia.

11 The foot of man shall not pass through
it, neither shall the foot of beasts go
through it: nor shall it be inhabited during
forty years.

12 And I will make the land of Egypt
desolate in the midst of the lands that are
desolate, and the cities thereof in the
midst of the cities that are destroyed, and
they shall be desolate for forty gears:
and I will scatter the Egyptians among
the nations, and will disperse them
through the countries.

13 For thus saith the Lord God: At the
end of forty years I will gather the
Egyptians from the people among whom
they had been scattered.

14 And I will bring hack the captivity
of Egypt, and will place them in the land
of Phatures, in the land of their nativity,
and they shall be there a low kingdom:

15 It shall be the lowest among other
kingdoms, and it shall no more be exalted
over the nations, and I will diminish
them that they shall rule no more over
the nations.

16 And they shall be no more a confidence
to the house of Israel, teaching
iniquity, that they may flee, and follow
them: and they shall know that I am
the Lord God.

17 And it came to pass in the seven and
twentieth year, in the first month, in
the first of the month: that the word of
the Lord came to me, saying:

18 Son of man, Nabuchodonosor king of
Babylon hath made his army to undergo
hard service against Tyre: every head
was made bald, and every shoulder was
peeled: and there hath been no reward
given him, nor his army for Tyre, for
the service that he rendered me against

19 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
Behold, I will set Nabuchodonosor the
king of Babylon in the land of Egypt:
and he shall take her multitude, and
take the booty thereof for a prey, and
rifle the spoils thereof: and it shall be
wages for his army.

20 And for the service that he hath
done me against it: I have given him the
land of Egypt, because he hath laboured
for me, saith the Lord God.

21 In that day a horn shall bud forth to
the house of Israel, and I will give thee
an open mouth in the midst of them: and
they shall know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 30

1 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

2 Son of man prophesy, and say: Thus
saith the Lord God: Howl ye, Woe, woe
to the day:

3 For the day is near, yea the day of the
Lord is near: a cloudy day, it shall be
the time of the nations.

4 And the sword shall come upon Egypt:
and there shall be dread in Ethiopia,
when the wounded shall fall in Egypt,
and the multitude thereof shall be taken
away, and the foundations thereof shall be
destroyed.

5 Ethiopia, and Libya, and Lydia, and
all the rest of the crowd, and Chub, and
the children of the land of the covenant,
shall fall with them by the sword.

6 Thus saith the Lord God: They also
that uphold Egypt shall fall, and the pride
of her empire shall be brought down:
from the tower of Syene shall they fall
in it by the sword, saith the Lord the
God of hosts.

7 And they shall be desolate in the
midst of the lands that are desolate, and
the cities thereof shall be in the midst of
the cities that are wasted.

8 And they shall know that I am the
Lord: when I shall have set a fire in
Egypt, and all the helpers thereof shall
be destroyed.

9 In that day shall messengers go forth
from my face in ships to destroy the
confidence of Ethiopia, and there shall
be dread among them in the day of Egypt:
because it shall certainly come.

10 Thus saith the Lord God : I will make
the multitude of Egypt to cease by the
hand of Nabuchodonosor the king of
Babylon.

11 He and his people with him, the
strongest of nations, shall be brought to
destroy the land: and they shall draw
their swords upon Egypt: and shall fill
the land with the slain.

12 And I will make the channels of the
rivers dry, and will deliver the land into
the hand of the wicked: and will lay
waste the land and all that is therein by
the hands of strangers, I the Lord have
spoken it.

13 Thus saith the Lord God: I will
also destroy the idols, and I will make an
end of the idols of Memphis: and there
shall be no more a prince of the land of
Egypt: and I will cause a terror in the
land of Egypt.

14 And I will destroy the land of Phatures,
and will make a fire in Taphnis,
and will execute judgments in Alexandria.

15 And I will pour out my indignation
upon Pelusium the strength of Egypt,
and will cut off the multitude of Alexandria.

16 And I will make a fire in Egypt:
Pelusium shall be in pain like a woman
in labour, and Alexandria shall be laid
waste, and in Memphis there shall be
daily distresses.

17 The young men of Heliopolis, and of
Bubastus shall fall by the sword, and they
themselves shall go into captivity.

18 And in Taphnis the day shall be
darkened, when I shall break there the
sceptres of Egypt, and the pride of her power
shall cease in her: a cloud shall cover
her, and her daughters shall be led into
captivity.

19 And I will execute judgments in
Egypt: and they shall know that I am
the Lord.

20 And it came to pass in the eleventh
year, in the first month, in the seventh
day of the month, that the word of the
Lord came to me, saying:

21 Son of man, I have broken the arm
of Pharao king of Egypt: and behold it
is not bound up, to be healed, to be tied
up with clothes, and swathed with linen,
that it might recover strength, and hold
the sword.

22 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God:
Behold, I come against Pharao king of
Egypt, and I will break into pieces his
strong arm, which is already broken: and
I will cause the sword to fall out of his
hand:

23 And I will disperse Egypt among the
nations, and scatter them through the
countries.

24 And I will strengthen the arms of the
king of Babylon, and will put my sword
in his hand: and I will break the arms
of Pharao, and they shall groan bitterly
being slain before his face.

25 And I will strengthen the arms of the
king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharao
shall fall: and they shall know that I am
the Lord, when I shall have given my
sword into the hand of the king of Babylon,
and he shall have stretched it forth
upon the land of Egypt.

26 And I will disperse Egypt among the
nations, and will scatter them through
the countries, and they shall know that
I am the Lord.

Chapter 31

1 And it came to pass in the eleventh
year, the third month, the first day
of the month, that the word of the Lord
came to me, saying:

2 Son of man, speak to Pharao king of
Egypt, and to his people: To whom art
thou like in thy greatness?

3 Behold, the Assyrian was like a cedar
in Libanus, with fair branches, and full of
leaves, of a high stature, and his top was
elevated among the thick boughs.

4 The waters nourished him, the deep
set him up on high, the streams thereof
ran round about his roots, and it sent
forth its rivulets to all the trees of the
country.

5 Therefore was his height exalted above
all the trees of the country: and his
branches were multiplied, and his boughs
were elevated because of many waters.

6 And when he had spread forth his
shadow, all the fowls of the air made
their nests in his boughs, and all the
beasts of the forest brought forth their
young under his branches, and the
assembly of many nations dwelt under his
shadow.

7 And he was most beautiful for his
greatness, and for the spreading of his
branches: for his root was near great
waters.

8 The cedars in the paradise of God wars
not higher than he, the fir trees did not
equal his top, neither were the plane
trees to be compared with him for
branches: no tree in the paradise of
God was like him in his beauty.

9 For I made him beautiful and thick
set with many branches: and all the
trees of pleasure, that were in the paradise
of God, envied him.

10 Therefore thus saith the Lord God
Because he was exalted in height, and
shot up his top green and thick, and his
heart was lifted up in his height:

11 I have delivered him into the hands
of the mighty one of the nations, he shall
deal with him: I have cast him out according
to his wickedness.

12 And strangers, and the most cruel of
the nations shall cut him down, and cast
him away upon the mountains, and his
boughs shall fall in every valley, and his
branches shall be broken on every rock
of the country: and all the people of the
earth shall depart from his shadow, and
leave him.

13 All the fowls of the air dwelt upon
his ruins, and all the beasts of the field
were among his branches.

14 For which cause none of the trees by
the waters shall exalt themselves for their
height: nor shoot up their tops among
the thick branches and leaves, neither
shall any of them that are watered stand
up in their height: for they are all
delivered unto death to the lowest parts of
the earth, in the midst of the children of
men, with them that go down into the
pit.

15 Thus saith the Lord God: In the day
when he went down to hell, I brought in
mourning, I covered him with the deep:
and I withheld its rivers, and restrained
the many waters: Libanus grieved for
him, and all the trees of the field trembled.

16 I shook the nations with the sound of
his fall, when I brought him down to hell
with them that descend into the pit: and
all the trees of pleasure, the choice and
best in Libanus, all that were moistened
with waters, were comforted in the lowest
parts of the earth.

17 For they also shall go down with him
to hell to them that are slain by the
sword: and the arm of every one shall
sit down under his shadow in the midst
of the nations.

18 To whom art thou like, O thou that
art famous and lofty among the trees of
pleasure? Behold, thou art brought down
with the trees of pleasure to the lowest
parts of the earth: thou shalt sleep in the
midst of the uncircumcised, with them
that are slain by the sword: this is Pharao,
and all his multitude, saith the Lord
God.

Chapter 32

1 And it came to pass in the twelfth
year, in the twelfth month, in the
first day of the month, that the word of
the Lord came to me, saying:

2 Son of man, take up a lamentation for
Pharao the king of Egypt, and say to
him: Thou art like the lion of the nations,
and the dragon that is in the sea: and
thou didst push with the horn in thy
rivers, and didst trouble the waters with
thy feet, and didst trample upon their
streams.

3 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God:
I will spread out my net over thee with
the multitude of many people, and I will
draw thee up in my net.

4 And I will throw thee out on the land,
I will cast thee away into the open field:
and I will cause all the fowls of the air to
dwell upon thee, and I will fill the beasts
of all the earth with thee.

5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the
mountains, and will fill thy hills with thy
corruption,

6 And I will water the earth with thy
stinking blood upon the mountains, and
the valleys shall be filled with thee.

7 And I will cover the heavens, when
thou shalt be put out, and I will make
the stars thereof dark: I will cover the
sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not
give her light.

8 I will make all the lights of heaven to
mourn over thee: and I will cause
darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God,
when thy wounded shall fall in the midst
of the land, saith the Lord God.

9 And I shall provoke to anger the heart
of many people, when I shall have brought
in thy destruction among the nations
upon the lands, which thou knowest not.

10 And I will make many people to be
amazed at thee, and their kings shell be
horribly afraid for thee, when my sword
shall begin to fly upon their faces: and
they shall be astonished on a sudden,
every one for his own life, in the day of
their ruin.

11 For thus saith the Lord God: The
sword of the king of Babylon shall come
upon thee,

12 By the swords of the mighty I will
overthrow thy multitude: all these
nations are invincible: and they shall waste
the pride of Egypt, and the multitude
thereof shall be destroyed.

13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof
that were beside the great waters: and
the foot of man shall trouble them no
more, neither shall the hoof of beasts
trouble them.

14 Then will I make their waters clear,
and cause their rivers to run like oil,
saith the Lord God:

15 When I shall have made the land of
Egypt desolate: and the land shall be
destitute of her fulness, when I shall
have struck all the inhabitants thereof:
and they shall know that I am the Lord.

16 This is the lamentation, and they
shall lament therewith: the daughters of
the nations shall lament therewith: for
Egypt, and for the multitude thereof they
shall lament therewith, saith the Lord
God.

17 And it came to pass in the twelfth
year, in the fifteenth day of the month
that the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

18 Son of man, sing a mournful song
for the multitude of Egypt: and cast
her down, both her, and the daughters of
the mighty nations to the lowest part
of the earth, with them that go down
into the pit.

19 Whom dost thou excel in beauty? go
down and sleep with the uncircumcised.

20 They shall fall in the midst of them
that are slain with the sword : the sword
is given, they have drawn her down, and
all her people.

21 The most mighty among the strong
ones shall speak to him from the midst
of hell, they that went down with his
helpers, and slept uncircumcised, slain by
the sword.

22 Assur is there, and all his multitude:
their graves are round about him, all of
them slain, and that fell by the sword.

23 Whose graves are set in the lowest
parts of the pit: and his multitude lay
round about his grave: all of them slain,
and fallen by the sword, they that heretofore
spread terror in the land of the
living.

24 There is Elam and all his multitude
round about his grave, all of them slain,
and fallen by the sword; that went
down uncircumcised to the lowest parts
of the earth: that caused their terror in
the land of the living, and they have
borne their shame with them that go
down into the pit.

25 In the midst of the slain they have
set him a bed among all his people: their
graves are round about him: all these
are uncircumcised, and slain by the
sword: for they spread their terror in
the land of the living, and have borne
their shame with them that descend into
the pit: they are laid in the midst of the
slain.

26 There is Mosoch, and Thubal, and
all their multitude: their graves are
round about him: all of them uncircumcised
and slain, and fallen by the sword:
though they spread their terror in the
land of the living.

27 And they shall not sleep with the
brave, and with them that fell uncircumcised,
that went down to hell with their
weapons, and laid their swords under
their heads, and their iniquities were in
their bones, because they were the terror
of the mighty in the land of the living.

28 So thou also shalt be broken in the
midst of the uncircumcised, and shalt
sleep with them that are slain by the
sword.

29 There is Edom, and her kings, and
all her princes, who with their army are
joined with them that are slain by the
sword: and have slept with the
uncircumcised, and with them that go down
into the pit.

30 There are all the princes of the north,
and all the hunters: who were brought
down with the slain, fearing, and con-
founded in their strength: who slept
uncircumcised with them that are slain by
the sword, and have borne their shame
with them that go down into the pit.

31 Pharao saw them, and he was
comforted concerning all his multitude, which
was slain by the sword: Pharao, and all
his army, saith the Lord God:

32 Because I have spread my terror in
the land of the living, and he hath slept
in the midst of the uncircumcised with
them that are slain by the sword: Pharao
and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 33

1 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

2 Son of man, speak to the children of
thy people, and say to them: When I
bring the sword upon a land, if the people
of the land take a man, one of their
meanest, and make him a watchman over
them:

3 And he see the sword coming upon
the land, and sound the trumpet, and tell
the people:

4 Then he that heareth the sound of the
trumpet, whosoever he be, and doth not
look to himself, if the sword come, and
cut him off: his blood shall be upon his
own head.

5 He heard the sound of the trumpet
and did not look to himself, his blood
shall be upon him: but if he look to himself,
he shall save his life.

6 And if the watchman see the sword
coming, and sound not the trumpet: and
the people look not to themselves, and
the sword come, and cut off a soul from
among them: he indeed is taken away
in his iniquity, but I will require his
blood at the hand of the watchman.

7 So thou, O son of man, I have made
thee a watchman to the house of Israel:
therefore thou shalt hear the word from
my mouth, and shalt tell it them from
me.

8 When I say to the wicked: O wicked
man, thou shalt surely die: if thou dost
not speak to warn the wicked man from
his way: that wicked man shall die in
his iniquity, but I will require his blood
at thy hand.

9 But if thou tell the wicked man, that
he may be converted from his ways, and
he be not converted from his way: he
shall die in his iniquity: but thou hast
delivered thy soul.

10 Thou therefore, O son of man, say
to the house of Israel: Thus you have
spoken, saying: Our iniquities, and our
sins are upon us, and we pine away in
them: how then can we live?

11 Say to them: As I live, saith the
Lord God, I desire not the death of the
wicked, but that the wicked turn from
his way, and live. Turn ye, turn ye from
your evil ways: and why will you die, O
house of Israel?

12 Thou therefore, O son of man, say to
the children of thy people: The justice of
the just shall not deliver him, in what
day soever he shall sin: and the wickedness
of the wicked shall not hurt him, in
what day soever he shall turn from his
wickedness: and the just shall not be
able to live in his justice, in what day
soever he shall sin.

13 Yea, if I shall say to the just that he
shall surely live, and he, trusting in his
justice, commit iniquity: all his justices
shall be forgotten, and in his iniquity,
which he hath committed, in the same
shall he die.

14 And if I shall say to the wicked:
Thou shalt surely die: and he do
penance for his sin, and do judgment and
justice,

15 And if that wicked man restore the
pledge, and render what he had robbed,
and walk in the commandments of life,
and do no unjust thing: he shall surely
live, and shall not die.

16 None of his sins, which he hath
committed, shall be imputed to him: he hath
done judgment and justice, he shall surely
live.

17 And the children of thy people have
said: The way of the Lord is not
equitable: whereas their own way is unjust.

18 For when the just shall depart from
his justice, and commit iniquities, he shall
die in them.

19 And when the wicked shall depart
from his wickedness, and shall do
judgments, and justice: be shall live in them.

20 And you say: The way of the Lord
is not right, I will judge every one of you
according to his ways, O house of Israel.

21 And it came to pass in the twelfth
year of our captivity, in the tenth
month, in the fifth day of the month,
that there came to me one that was fled
from Jerusalem, saying: The city is laid
waste.

22 And the hand of the Lord had been
upon me in the evening, before he that
was fled came: and he opened my mouth
till he came to me in the morning, and
my mouth being opened, I was silent no
more.

23 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

24 Son of man, they that dwell in these
ruinous places in the land of Israel, speak,
saying: Abraham was one, and he inherited
the land, but we are many, the land
is given us in possession.

25 Therefore say to them: Thus saith
the Lord God, You that eat with the
blood and lift up your eyes to your
uncleannesses, and that shed blood: shall
you possess the land by inheritance?

26 You stood on your swords, you have
committed abominations, and every one
hath defiled his neighbour's wife; and
shall you possess the land by inheritance?

27 Say thou thus to them: Thus saith
the Lord God: As I live, they that dwell
in the ruinous places, shall fall by the
sword: and he that is in the field, shall
be given to the beasts to be devoured:
and they that are in holds, and caves,
shall die of the pestilence.

28 And I will make the land a wilderness,
and a desert, and the proud strength
thereof shall fail, and the mountains of
Israel shall be desolate, because there is
none to pass by them.

29 And they shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall have made their land
waste and desolate, for all their abominations
which they have committed.

30 And thou son of man: the children
of thy people, that talk of thee by the
walls, and in the doors of the houses, and
speak one to another each men to his
neighbour, saying: Come, and let us hear
what is the word that cometh forth from
the Lord.

31 And they come to thee, as if a people
were coming in, and my people sit before
thee: and hear thy words, and do them
not: for they turn them into a song of
their mouth, and their heart goeth after
their covetousness.

32 And thou art to them as a musical
song which is sung with a sweet and
agreeable voice: and they hear thy
words, and do them not.

33 And when that which was foretold
shall come to pass, (for behold it is coming,)
then shall they know that a prophet
bath been among them.

Chapter 34

1 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

2 Son of man, prophesy concerning the
shepherds of Israel: prophesy, and say
to the shepherds: Thus saith the Lord
God: Woe to the shepherds of Israel,
that fed themselves: should not the
hocks be fed by the shepherds?

3 You ate the milk, end you clothed
yourselves with the wool, and you killed
that which was fat: but my flock you did
not feed.

4 The weak you have not strengthened,
and that which was sick you have not
healed, that which was broken you have
not bound up, and that which was driven
away you have not brought again, neither
have you sought that which was lost:
but you ruled over them with rigour, and
with a high hand.

5 And my sheep were scattered, because
there was no shepherd: and they became
the prey of all the beasts of the field,
and were scattered.

6 My sheep have wandered in every
mountain, and in every high hill: and
my flocks mere scattered upon the face
of the earth, and there was none that
sought them, there was none, I say, that
sought them.

7 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the
word of the Lord:

8 As I live, saith the Lord God,
forasmuch as my flocks have been made a
spoil, and my sheep are become a prey
to all the beasts of the field, because
there was no shepherd: for my shepherds
did not seek after my flock, but the
shepherds fed themselves, and fed not
my flocks:

9 Therefore, ye shepherds, hear the
word of the Lord:

10 Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I
myself come upon the shepherds, I will
require my hock at their hand, and I will
cause them to cease from feeding the flock
any more, neither shall the shepherds feed
themselves any more: and I will deliver
my flock from their mouth, and it shall
no more be meat for them.

11 For thus saith the Lord God: Behold
I myself will seek my sheep, and will
visit them.

12 As the shepherd visiteth his hock in
the day when he shall be in the midst of
his sheep that were scattered, so will I
visit my sheep, and will deliver them
out of all the places where they have
been scattered in the cloudy and dark
day.

13 And I will bring them out from the
peoples, and will gather them out of the
countries, and will bring them to their
own land: and I will feed them in the
mountains of Israel, by the rivers, and in
all the habitations of the land.

14 I will feed them in the most fruitful
pastures, and their pastures shall be in
the high mountains of Israel: there shall
they rest on the green grass, and be fed
in fat pastures upon the mountains of
Israel.

15 I will feed my sheep : and I will cause
them to lie down, saith the Lord God.

16 I will seek that which was lost: and
that which was driven away, I will bring
again: and I will bind up that which was
broken, and I will strengthen that which
was weak, and that which was fat and
strong I will preserve: and I will feed
them in judgment.

17 And as for you, O my flocks, thus
saith the Lord God: Behold I judge
between cattle and cattle, of rams and of
he goats.

18 Was it not enough for you to feed
upon good pastures? but you must also
tread down with your feet the residue of
your pastures: and when you drank the
dearest water, you troubled the rest with
your feet.

19 And my sheep were fed with that
which you had trodden with your feet:
and they drank what your feet had
troubled.

20 Therefore thus saith the Lord God to
you: Behold, I myself will judge between
the fat cattle and the lean.

21 Because you thrusted with sides and
shoulders, and struck all the weak cattle
with your horns, till they were scattered
abroad:

22 I will save my dock, and it shall be
no more a spoil, and I will judge between
cattle and cattle.

23 AND I WILL SET UP ONE SHEPHERD
OVER THEM, and he shall feed them, even
my servant David: he shall feed them,
and he shall be their shepherd.

24 And I the Lord will be their God:
and my servant David the prince in the
midst of them: I the Lord have spoken it.

25 And I will make a covenant of peace
with them, and will cause the evil beasts
to cease out of the land: and they that
dwell in the wilderness shall sleep secure
in the forests.

26 And I will make them a blessing
round about my hill: and I will send down
the rain in its season, there shall be
showers of blessing.

27 And the tree of the field shall yield
its fruit, and the earth shall yield her
increase, and they shall be in their land
without fear: and they shall know that
I am the Lord, when I shall have broken
the bonds of their yoke, and shall have
delivered them out of the hand of those
that rule over them.

28 And they shall be no more for a spoil
to the nations, neither shall the beasts of
the earth devour them: but they shall
dwell securely without any terror.

29 And I will raise up for them a bud of
renown: and they shall be no more
consumed with famine in the land, neither
shall they bear any more the reproach of
the Gentiles.

30 And they shall know that I the Lord
their God am with them, and that they
are my people the house of Israel: saith
the Lord God.

31 And you my flocks, the flocks of my
pasture are men: and I am the Lord
your God, saith the Lord God.

Chapter 35

1 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

2 Son of man, set thy face against mount
Seir, and prophesy concerning it, and say
to it:

3 Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I
come against thee, mount Seir, and I will
stretch forth my hand upon thee, and I
will make thee desolate and waste.

4 I will destroy thy cities, and thou shalt
be desolate: and thou shalt know that I
am the Lord.

5 Because thou hast been an everlasting
enemy, and hast shut up the children
of Israel in the hands of the sword
in the time of their affliction, in the
time of their last iniquity.

7 And I will make mount Seir waste
and desolate: and I will take away from
it him that goeth and him that returneth.

8 And I will fill his mountains with his
men that are slain: in thy hills, and in
thy valleys, and in thy torrents they
shall fall that are slain with the sword.

9 I will make thee everlasting desolations,
and thy cities shall not be inhabited:
and thou shalt know that I am the
Lord God.

10 Because thou hast said: The two
nations, and the two lands shall be mine,
and I will possess them by inheritance:
whereas the Lord was there.

11 Therefore as I live, saith the Lord
God, I will do according to thy wrath,
and according to thy envy, which thou
hast exercised in hatred to them: and I
will be made known by them, when I
shall have judged thee.

12 And thou shalt know that I the
Lord have heard all thy reproaches,
that thou hast spoken against the mountains
of Israel, saying: They are desolate,
they are given to us to consume.

13 And you rose up against me with
your mouth, and have derogated from
me by your words: I have heard them.

14 Thus saith the Lord God: When the
whole earth shall rejoice, I will make
thee a wilderness.

15 As thou best rejoiced over the inheritance
of the house of Israel, because it
was laid waste, so will I do to thee:
thou shalt be laid waste, O mount Seir,
and all Idumea: and they shall know
that I am the Lord.

Chapter 36

1 And thou son of man, prophesy to the
mountains of Israel, and say: Ye
mountains of Israel, hear the word of
the Lord:

2 Thus saith the Lord God: Because
the enemy hath said of you: Aha, the
everlasting heights are given to us for
an inheritance.

3 Therefore prophesy, and say: Thus
saith the Lord God: Because you have
been desolate, and trodden under foot
on every side, and made an inheritance
to the rest of the nations, and are
become the subject of the talk, and the
reproach of the people:

4 Therefore, ye mountains of Israel,
hear the word of the Lord God: Thus
saith the Lord God to the mountains,
and to the hills, to the brooks, and to
the valleys, and to desolate places, and
ruinous walls, and to the cities that are
forsaken, that are spoiled, and derided
by the rest of the nations round about.

5 Therefore thus saith the Lord God:
In the fire of my zeal I have spoken of
the rest of the nations, and of all Edom,
who have taken my land to themselves,
for an inheritance with joy, and with all
the heart, and with the mind: and have
cast it out to lay it waste.

6 Prophesy therefore concerning the
land of Israel, and say to the mountains,
and to the hills, to the ridges, and to the
valleys: Thus saith the Lord God:
Behold I have spoken in my zeal, and in
my indignation, because you have borne
the shame of the Gentiles.

7 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: I
have lifted up my hand, that the Gentiles
who are round about you, shall
themselves bear their shame.

8 But as for you, O mountains of Israel,
shoot ye forth your branches, and yield
your fruit to my people of Israel: for
they are at hand to come.

9 For lo I am for you, and I will turn
to you, and you shall be ploughed and
sown.

10 And I will multiply men upon you,
and all the house of Israel: and the cities
shall be inhabited, and the ruinous places
shall be repaired.

11 And I will make you abound with
men and with beasts: and they shall be
multiplied, and increased: and I will
settle you as from the beginning, and
will give you greater gifts, than you had
from the beginning: and you shall know
that I am the Lord.

12 And I will bring men upon you, my
people Israel, and they shall possess thee
for their inheritance: and thou shalt be
their inheritance, and shalt no more
henceforth be without them.

13 Thus saith the Lord God: Because
they say of you: Thou art a devourer of
men, and one that suffocatest thy
nation:

15 Neither will I cause men to hear in
thee the shame of the nations any more,
nor shalt thou bear the reproach of the
people, nor lose thy nation any more,
saith the Lord God.

16 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

17 Son of man, when the house of
Israel dwelt in their own land, they
defiled it with their ways, and with their
doings: their way was before me like
the uncleanness of a menstruous woman.

18 And I poured out my indignation
upon them for the blood which they had
shed upon the land, and with their idols
they defiled it.

19 And I scattered them among the
nations, and they are dispersed through
the countries: I have judged them
according to their ways, and their devices.

20 And when they entered among the
nations whither they went, they
profaned my holy name, when it was said
of them: This is the people of the Lord,
and they are come forth out of his
land.

21 And I have regarded my own holy
name, which the house of Israel hath
profaned among the nations to which
they went in.

22 Therefore thou shalt say to the
house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord
God: It is not for your sake that I will
do this, O house of Israel, but for my
holy name's sake, which you have
profaned among the nations whither you
went.

23 And I will sanctify my great name,
which was profaned among the Gentiles,
which you have profaned in the midst of
them: that the Gentiles may know that
I am the Lord, saith the Lord of hosts,
when I shall be sanctified in you before
their eyes.

24 For I will take you from among the
Gentiles, and will gather you together
out of all the countries, and will bring
you into your own land.

25 And I will pour upon you clean
water, and you shall be cleansed from all
your filthiness, and I will cleanse you
from all your idols.

26 And I will give you a new heart, and
put a new spirit within you: and I will
take away the stony heart out of your
flesh, and will give you a heart of flesh.

27 And I will put my spirit in the midst
of you: and I will cause you to walk
in my commandments, and to keep my
judgments, and do them.

28 And you shall dwell in the land
which I gave to your fathers, and you
shall be my people, and I will be your
God.

29 And I will save you from all your
uncleannesses: and I will call for corn,
and will multiply it, and will lay no famine
upon you.

30 And I will multiply the fruit of the
tree, and the increase of the held, that
you bear no more the reproach of
famine among the nations.

31 And you shall remember your wicked
ways, and your doings that were not
good: and your iniquities, and your
wicked deeds shall displease you.

32 It is not for your sakes that I will
do this, saith the Lord God, be it known
to you: be confounded, and ashamed at
your own ways, O house of Israel.

33 Thus saith the Lord God: In the day
that I shall cleanse you from all your
iniquities, and shall cause the cities to be
inhabited, and shall repair the ruinous
places,

34 And the desolate land shall be tilled,
which before was waste in the sight of
all that passed by,

35 They shall say: This land that was
untilled is become as a garden of
pleasure: and the cities that were abandoned,
and desolate, and destroyed, are peopled
and fenced.

36 And the nations, that shall be left
round about you, shall know that I the
Lord have built up what was destroyed,
and planted what was desolate, that I
the Lord have spoken and done it.

37 Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover
in this shall the house of Israel find me,
that I will do it for them: I will multiply
them as a flock of men,

38 As a holy dock, as the flock of
Jerusalem in her solemn feasts: so shall the
waste cities be full of flocks of men: and
they shall know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 37

1 The hand of the Lord was upon me,
and brought me forth in the spirit
of the Lord: and set me down in the
midst of a plain that was full of bones.

2 And he led me about through them
on every side: now they were very many
upon the face of the plain, and they were
exceeding dry.

3 And he said to me: Son of man, dost
thou think these bones shall live? And I
answered: O Lord God, thou knowest.

4 And he said to me: Prophesy
concerning these bones; and say to them:
Ye dry bones, hear the word of the
Lord.

5 Thus saith the Lord God to these
bones: Behold, I will send spirit into
you, and you shall live.

6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and
will cause flesh to grow over you, and
will cover you with skin: and I will give
you spirit and you shall live, and you
shall know that I am the Lord.

7 And I prophesied as he had
commanded me: and as I prophesied there
was a noise, and behold a commotion:
and the bones came together, each one
to its joint.

8 And I saw, and behold the sinews, and
the flesh came up upon them: and the
skin was stretched out over them, but
there was no spirit in them.

9 And he said to me: Prophesy to the
spirit, prophesy, O son of man, and say
to the spirit: Thus saith the Lord God:
Come, spirit, from the four winds, and
blow upon these slain, and let them live
again.

10 And I prophesied as he had
commanded me: and the spirit came into
them, and they lived: and they stood up
upon their feet, an exceeding great army.

11 And he said to me: Son of man: All
these bones are the house of Israel : they
say: Our bones are dried up, and our
hope is lost, and we are cut off.

12 Therefore prophesy, and say to them:
Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will
open your graves, and will bring you out
of your sepulchres, O my people: and will
bring you into the land of Israel.

13 And you shall know that I am the
Lord, when I shall have opened your
sepulchres, and shall have brought you
out of your graves, O my people:

14 And shall have put my spirit in you,
and you shall live, and I shall make you
rest upon your own land: and you shall
know that I the Lord have spoken, and
done it, saith the Lord God:

15 And the word of the Lord came to
me, saying:

16 And thou son of man, take thee a
stick: and write upon it: Of Juda, and of
the children of Israel his associates: and
take another stick and write upon it: For
Joseph the stick of Ephraim, and for all
the house of Israel, and of his associates.

17 And join them one to the other into
one stick, and they shall become one in
thy hand.

18 And when the children of thy
people shall speak to thee, saying: Wilt thou
not tell us what thou meanest by this?

19 Say to them: Thus saith the Lord
God: Behold, I will take the stick of
Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim,
and the tribes of Israel that are associated
with him, and I will put them together
with the stick of Juda, and will make
them one stick: and they shall be one
in his hand.

20 And the sticks whereon thou hast
written, shall be in thy hand, before their
eyes.

21 And thou shalt say to them: Thus
saith the Lord God: Behold, I will take
the children of Israel from the midst of
the nations whither they are gone: and
I will gather them on every side, and
will bring them to their own land.

22 And I will make them one nation
in the land on the mountains of Israel,
and one king shall be king over them all:
and they shall no more be two nations,
neither shall they be divided any more
into two kingdoms.

23 Nor shall they be defiled any more
with their idols, nor with their
abominations, nor with all their iniquities: and
I will save them out of all the places
in which they have sinned, and I will
cleanse them: and they shall be my people,
and I will be their God.

24 And my servant David shall be king
over them, and they shall have one shepherd:
they shall walk in my judgments,
and shall keep my commandments, and
shall do them.

25 And they shall dwell in the land
which I gave to my servant Jacob,
wherein your fathers dwelt, and they
shall dwell in it, they and their children,
and their children's children, for ever:
and David my servant shall be their
prince for ever.

26 And I will make a covenant of
peace with them, it shall be an everlasting
covenant with them : and I will
establish them, and will multiply them,
and will set my sanctuary in the midst
of them for ever.

27 And my tabernacle shall be with
them: and I will be their God, and they
shall be my people.

28 And the nations shall know that I am
the Lord the sanctifier of Israel, when my
sanctuary shall be in the midst of them
for ever.

Chapter 38

1 And the word of the Lord came to me,
saying:

2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,
the land of Magog, the chief prince of
Mosoch and Thubal: and prophesy of
him,

3 And say to him: Thus saith the Lord
God: Behold, I come against thee, O Gog,
the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal.

4 And I will turn thee about, and I will
put a bit in thy jaws: and I will bring
thee forth, and ail thy army, horses and
horsemen all clothed with coats of mail,
a great multitude, armed with spears and
shields and swords.

5 The Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans
with them, all with shields and helmets.

6 Gomer, and all his bands, the house of
Thogorma, the northern parts and all his
strength, and many peoples with thee.

7 Prepare and make thyself ready, and
all thy multitude that is assembled about
thee, and be thou commander over them.

8 After many days thou shalt be visited:
at the end of years thou shalt come to
the land that is returned from the sword,
and is gathered out of many nations, to
the mountains of Israel which have been
continually waste: but it hath been
brought forth out of the nations, and
they shall all of them dwell securely in

9 And thou shalt go up and come like a
storm, and like a cloud to cover the land,
thou and all thy bands and many people
with thee.

10 Thus saith the Lord God: In that day
projects shall enter into thy heart, and
thou shalt conceive a mischievous design.

11 And thou shalt say: I will go up to
the land which is without a wall, I will
come to them that are at rest, and dwell
securely: all these dwell without a wall,
they have no bars nor gates :

12 To take spoils, and lay hold on the
prey, to lay thy hand upon them that had
been wasted, and afterwards restored, and
upon the people that is gathered together
out of the nations, which hath begun to
possess and to dwell in the midst of the
earth.

13 Saba, and Dedan, and the merchants
of Tharsis, and all the lions thereof shall
say to thee: Art thou come to take
spoils? behold, thou hast gathered thy
multitude to take a prey, to take silver,
and gold, and to carry away goods and
substance, and to take rich spoils.

14 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy
and say to Cog: Thus saith the Lord
God: Shalt thou not know, in that day,
when my people of Israel shall dwell
securely?

15 And then shalt come out of thy place
from the northern parts, thou and many
people with thee, all of them riding upon
horses, a great company and a mighty
army.

16 And thou shalt come upon my people
of Israel like a cloud, to cover the earth.
Thou shalt be in the latter days, and I
will bring thee upon my land: that the
nations may know me, when I shall be
sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.

17 Thus saith the Lord God: Thou then
art he, of whom I have spoken in the
days of old, by my servants the prophets
of Israel, who prophesied in the days of
those times that I would bring thee upon
them.

18 And it shall come to pass in that day,
in the day of the coming of Gog upon
the land of Israel, saith the Lord God,
that my indignation shall come up in my
wrath.

19 And I have spoken in my zeal, and
in the fire of my anger, that in that day
there shall be a great commotion upon
the land of Israel:

20 So that the fishes of the sea, and the
birds of the air, and the beasts of the
field, and every creeping thing that
creepeth upon the ground, and all men
that are upon the face of the earth, shall
be moved at my presence: and the
mountains shall be thrown down, and the
hedges shall fall, and every wall shall fall
to the ground.

21 And I will call in the sword against
him in all my mountains, saith the Lord
God: every man's sword shall be pointed
against his brother.

22 And I will judge him with pestilence,
and with blood, and with violent rain, and
vast hailstones: I will rain fire and brimstone
upon him, and upon his army, and
upon the many nations that are with
him.

23 And I will be magnified, and I will be
sanctified: and I will be known in the
eyes of many nations: and they shall
know that I am the Lord.

Chapter 39

1 And thou, son of man, prophesy against
Cog, and say: Thus saith the Lord
God: Behold, I come against thee, O Cog,
the chief prince of Mosoch and Thubal.

2 And I will turn thee round, and I will
lead thee out, and will make thee go up
from the northern parts: and will bring
thee upon the mountains of Israel.

3 And I will break thy bow in thy left
hand, and I will cause thy arrows to fall
out of thy right hand.

4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of
Israel, thou and all thy bands, and thy
nations that are with thee: I have given
thee to the wild beasts, to the birds, and
to every fowl, and to the beasts of the
earth to be devoured.

5 Thou shalt fall upon the face of the
field: for I have spoken it, saith the
Lord God.

6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and
on them that dwell confidently in the
islands: and they shall know that I am
the Lord.

7 And I will make my holy name known
in the midst of my people Israel, and my
holy name shall be profaned no more:
and the Gentiles shall know that I am
the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

8 Behold it cometh, and it is done, saith
the Lord God: this is the day whereof I
have spoken.

9 And the inhabitants shall go forth of
the cities of Israel, and shall set on fire
and burn the weapons, the shields, and
the spears, the bows and the arrows, and
the handstaves and the pikes: and they
shall burn them with fire seven years.

10 And they shall not bring wood out
of the countries, nor cut down out of the
forests: for they shall burn the weapons
with fire, and shall make a prey of them
to whom they had been a prey, and they
shall rob those that robbed them, saith
the Lord God.

11 And it shall come to pass in that
day, that I will give Gog a noted place
for a sepulchre in Israel: the valley of
the passengers on the east of the sea,
which shall cause astonishment in them
that pass by: and there shall they bury
Cog, and all his multitude, and it shall
be called the valley of the multitude of
Cog.

12 And the house of Israel shall bury
them for seven months to cleanse the
land.

13 And all the people of the land shall
bury him, and it shall be unto them a
noted day, wherein I was glorified, saith
the Lord God.

14 And they shall appoint men to go
continually about the land, to bury and
to seek out them that were remaining
upon the face of the earth, that they
may cleanse it: and after seven months
they shall begin to seek.

15 And they shall go about passing
through the land: and when they shall
see the bone of a man, they shall set up
a sign by it, till the buriers bury it in
the valley of the multitude of Cog.

16 And the name of the city shall be
Amona, and they shall cleanse the land.

17 And thou, O son of man, saith the
Lord God, say to every fowl, and to all
the birds, and to all the beasts of the
field: Assemble yourselves, make haste,
come together from every side to my
victim, which I slay for you, a great
victim upon the mountains of Israel: to eat
flesh, and drink blood.

18 You shall eat the flesh of the mighty,
and you shall drink the blood of the
princes of the earth, of rams, and of
lambs, and of he goats, and bullocks, and
of all that are well fed and fat.

19 And you shall eat the fat till you be
full, and shall drink blood till you be
drunk of the victim which I shall slay
for you.

20 And you shall be filled at my table
with horses, and mighty horsemen, and
all the men of war, saith the Lord God.

21 And I will set my glory among the
nations: and all nations shall see my
judgment that I have executed, and my
hand that I have laid upon them.

22 And the house of Israel shall know
that I am the Lord their God from that
day and forward.

23 And the nations shall know that the
house of Israel were made captives for
their iniquity, because they forsook me,
and I hid my face from them: and I
delivered them into the hands of their
enemies, and they fell all by the sword.

24 I have dealt with them according to
their uncleanness, and wickedness, and
hid my face from them.

25 Therefore, thus saith the Lord God:
Now will I bring back the captivity of
Jacob, and will have mercy on all the
house of Israel: and I will be jealous for
my holy name.

26 And they shall bear their confusion,
and all the transgressions wherewith they
have transgressed against me, when they
shall dwell in their land securely fearing
no man:

27 And I shall have brought them back
from among the nations, and shall have
gathered them together out of the lands
of their enemies, and shall be sanctified
in them, in the sight of many nations.

28 And they shall know that I am the
Lord their God, because I caused them
to be carried away among the nations;
and I have gathered them together unto
their own land, and have not left any of
them there.

29 And I will hide my face no more from
them, for I have poured out my spirit
upon all the house of Israel, saith the
Lord God.

Chapter 40

1 In the five and twentieth year of our
captivity, in the beginning of the
year, the tenth day of the month, the
fourteenth year after the city was
destroyed: in the selfsame day the hand of
the Lord was upon me, and he brought
me thither.

2 In the visions of God he brought me
into the land of Israel, and set me upon
a very high mountain: upon which there
was as the building of a city, bending
towards the south.

3 And he brought me in thither, and
behold a man, whose appearance was
like the appearance of brass, with a line
of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed
in his hand, and he stood in the gate.

4 And this man said to me: Son of man,
see with thy eyes, and hear with thy
ears, and set thy heart upon all that I
shall shew thee: for thou art brought
hither that they may be shewn to thee:
declare all that thou seest, to the house
of Israel.

5 And behold there was a wall on the
outside of the house round about, and in
the man's hand a measuring reed of six
cubits and a handbreadth: and he
measured the breadth of the building one
reed, and the height one reed.

6 And he came to the gate that looked
toward the east, and he went up the steps
thereof: and he measured the breadth of
the threshold of the gate one reed, that
is, one threshold was one reed broad:

7 And every little chamber was one reed
long, and one reed broad: and between
the little chambers were five cubits:

8 And the threshold of the gate by the
porch of the gate within, was one reed.

9 And he measured the porch of the gate
eight cubits, and the front thereof two
cubits: and the porch of the gate was
inward.

10 And the little chambers of the gate
that looked eastward were three on this
side, and three on that side: all three
were of one measure, and the fronts of
one measure, on both parts.

11 And he measured the breadth of the
threshold of the gate ten cubits: and the
length of the gate thirteen cubits:

12 And the border before the little chambers
one cubit: and one cubit was the
border on both sides: and the little
chambers were six cubits on this side
and that side.

13 And he measured the gate from the
roof of one little chamber to the roof of
another, in breadth five and twenty
cubits: door against door.

14 He made also fronts of sixty cubits:
and to the front the court of the gate on
every side round about.

15 And before the face of the gate which
reached even to the face of the porch of
the inner gate, fifty cubits.

16 And slanting windows in the little
chambers, and in their fronts, which
were within the gate on every side round
about: and in like, manner there wore
also in the porches windows round about
within, and before the fronts the representation
of palm trees.

17 And he brought me into the outward
court, and behold there were chambers,
and a pavement of stone in the court
round about: thirty chambers encompassed
the pavement.

18 And the pavement in the front of
the gates according to the length of the
gates was lower.

19 And he measured the breadth from
the face of the lower gate to the front
of the inner court without, a hundred
cubits to the east, and to the north.

20 He measured also both the length
and the breadth of the gate of the
outward court, which looked northward.

21 And the little chambers thereof
three on this side, and three on that side:
and the front thereof, and the porch
thereof according to the measure of the
former gate, fifty cubits long, and five
and twenty cubits broad.

22 And the windows thereof, and the
porch, and the gravings according to the
measure of the gate that looked to the
east, and they went up to it by seven
steps, and a porch was before it.

23 And the gate of the inner court was
over against the gate of the north, and
that of the ease: and he measured from
gate to gate a hundred cubits.

24 And he brought me out to the way
of the south, and behold the gate that
looked to the south : and he measured the
front thereof, and the porch thereof
according to the former measures.

25 And the windows thereof, and the
porches round about, as the other
windows: the length was fifty cubits, and
the breadth five and twenty cubits.

26 And there were seven steps to go up
to it: and a porch before the doors
thereof: and there were graven palm
trees, one on this side, and another on
that side in the front thereof.

27 And there was a gate of the inner
court towards the south: and he
measured from gate to gate towards the
south, a hundred cubits.

28 And he brought me into the inner
court at the south gate : and he measured
the gate according to the former measures.

29 The little chamber thereof, and the
front thereof, and the porch thereof with
the same measures: and the windows
thereof, and the porch thereof round
about it was fifty cubits in length, and
five and twenty cubits in breadth.

30 And the porch round about was five
and twenty cubits long, and five cubits
broad.

31 And the porch thereof to the
outward court, and the palm trees thereof
in the front: and there were eight steps
to go up to It.

32 And he brought me into the inner
court by the way of the east: and he
measured the gate according to the
former measures.

33 The little chamber thereof, and the
front thereof, and the porch thereof as
before: and the windows thereof, and
the porches thereof round about it was
fifty cubits long, and five and twenty
cubits broad.

34 And the porch thereof, that is, of
the outward court: and the graven palm
trees in the front thereof on this side and
on that side: and the going up thereof
was by eight steps.

35 And he brought me into the gate
that looked to the north: and he measured
according to the former measures.

36 The little chamber thereof, and the
front thereof, and the porch thereof, and
the windows thereof round about it was
fifty cubits long, and five and twenty
cubits broad.

37 And the porch thereof looked to the
outward court: and the graving of palm
trees in the front thereof was on this side
and on that side: and the going up to it
was by eight steps.

38 And at every chamber was a door in
the forefronts of the gates: there they
washed the holocaust.

39 And in the porch of the gate were
two tables on this side, and two tables
on that side: that the holocaust, and the
sin offering, and the trespass offering
might be slain thereon.

40 And on the outward side, which
goeth up to the entry of the gate that
looketh toward the north, were two tables.
and at the other side before the porch of
the gate were two tables.

41 Four tables were on this side, and four
tables on that side: at the sides of the
gate were eight tables, upon which they
slew the victims.

42 And the four tables for the holocausts
were made of square stones: one cubit
and a half long, and one cubit and a half
broad, and one cubit high: to lay the
vessels upon, in which the holocaust and
the victim is slain.

43 And the borders of them were of
one handbreadth, turned inwards round
about: and upon the tables was the flesh
of the offering.

44 And without the inner gate were the
chambers of the singing men in the inner
court, which was on the side of the gate
that looketh to the north: and their
prospect was towards the south, one at
the side of the east gate, which looketh
toward the north.

45 And he said to me: This chamber,
which looketh toward the south shall be
for the priests that watch in the wards of
the temple.

46 But the chamber that looketh towards
the north shall be for the priests that
watch over the ministry of the altar.
These are the sons of Sadoc, who among
the sons of Levi, come near to the Lord,
to minister to him.

47 And he measured the court a
hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits
broad foursquare: and the altar that was
before the face of the temple.

48 And he brought me into the porch of
the temple: and he measured the porch
five cubits on this side, and five cubits on
that side: and the breadth of the gate
three cubits on this side, and three cubits
on that side.

49 And the length of the porch was
twenty cubits, and the breadth eleven
cubits, and there were eight, steps to go
up to it. And there were pillars in the
fronts: one on this side, and another on
that side.

Chapter 41

1 And he brought me into the temple,
and he measured the fronts six
cubits broad on this side, and six cubits
on that side, the breadth of the tabernacle.

2 And the breadth of the gate was ten
cubits: and the sides of the gate five
cubits on this side, and five cubits on
that side: and he measured the length
thereof forty cubits, and the breadth
twenty cubits.

3 Then going inward he measured the
front of the gate two cubits: and the
gate six cubits, and the breadth of the
gate seven cubits.

4 And he measured the length thereof
twenty cubits, and the breadth twenty
cubits, before the face of the temple:
and he said to me: This is the holy of
holies.

5 And he measured the wall of the
house six cubits: and the breadth of
every side chamber four cubits round
about the house on every side.

6 And the side chambers one by
another, were twice thirty-three: and they
bore outwards, that they might enter in
through the wall of the house in the
sides round about, to hold in, and not
to touch the wall of the temple.

7 And there was a broad passage round
about, going up by winding stairs, and it
led into the upper loft of the temple all
round: therefore was the temple broader
in the higher parts: and so from the
lower parts they went to the higher by
the midst.

8 And I saw in the house the height
round about, the foundations of the side
chambers which were the measure of a
reed the space of six cubits:

9 And the thickness of the wall for the
side chamber without, which was five
cubits: and the inner house was within
the side chambers of the house.

10 And between the chambers was the
breadth of twenty cubits round about
the house on every side.

11 And the door of the side chambers
was turned towards the place of prayer:
one door was toward the north, and
another door was toward the south: and
the breadth of the place for prayer, was
five cubits round about.

12 And the building that was separate,
and turned to the way that looked toward
the sea, was seventy cubits broad: and
the wall of the building, five cubits thick
round about: and ninety cubits long.

13 And he measured the length of the
house, a hundred cubits: and the separate
building, and the walls thereof, a hundred
cubits in length.

14 And the breadth before the face
of the house, and of the separate place
toward the east, a hundred cubits.

15 And he measured the length of the
building over against it, which was
separated at the back of it: and the galleries
on both sides a hundred cubits: and the
inner temple, and the porches of the court.

16 The thresholds, and the oblique
windows, and the galleries round about on
three sides, over against the threshold of
every one, and floored with wood all
round about: and the ground was up to
the windows, and the windows were shut
over the doors.

17 And even to the inner house, and
without all the wall round about within
and without, by measure.

18 And there were cherubims and palm
trees wrought, so that a palm tree was
between a cherub and a cherub, and
every cherub had two faces.

19 The face of a man was toward the
palm tree on one side, and the face of a
lion was toward the palm tree on the
other side: set forth through all the
house round about.

20 From the ground even to the upper
parts of the gate, were cherubims and
palm trees wrought in the wall of the
temple.

21 The threshold was foursquare, and
the face of the sanctuary, sight to sight.

22 The altar of wood was three cubits
high: and the length thereof was two
cubits: and the corners thereof, and the
length thereof, and the walls thereof
were of wood. And he said to me:
This is the table before the Lord.

23 And there were two doors in the
temple, and in the sanctuary.

24 And in the two doors on both sides
were two little doors, which were folded
within each other: for there were two
wickets on both sides of the doors.

25 And there were cherubims also
wrought in the doors of the temple, and
the figures of palm trees, like as were
made on the walls: for which cause also
the planks were thicker in the front of
the porch without.

26 Upon which were the oblique
windows, and the representation of palm
trees on this side, and on that side in the
sides of the porch, according to the sides
of the house, and the breadth of the
walls.

Chapter 42

1 And he brought me forth into the
outward court by the way that leadeth
to the north, and he brought me into the
chamber that was over against the
separate building, and over against the house
toward the north.

2 In the face of the north door was the
length of a hundred cubits, and the
breadth of fifty cubits.

3 Over against the twenty cubits of the
inner court, and over against the
pavement of the outward court that was
paved with stone, where there was a
gallery joined to a triple gallery.

4 And before the chambers was a walk
ten cubits broad, looking to the inner
parts of a way of one cubit. And their
doors were toward the north.

5 Where were the store chambers lower
above: because they bore up the galleries,
which appeared above out of them
from the lower parts, and from the midst
of the building.

6 For they were of three stories, and
had not pillars, as the pillars of the
courts: therefore did they appear above
out of the lower places, and out of the
middle places, fifty cubits from the
ground.

7 And the outward wall that went about
by the chambers, which were towards
the outward court on the forepart of the
chambers, was fifty cubits long.

8 For the length of the chambers of the
outward court was fifty cubits: and the
length before the face of the temple, a
hundred cubits.

9 And there was under these chambers,
an entrance from the east, for them that
went into them out of the outward court.

10 In the breadth of the outward wall
of the court that was toward the east,
over against the separate building, and
there were chambers before the building.

11 And the way before them was like
the chambers which were toward the
north: they wore as long as they, and as
broad as they: and all the going is to
them, and their fashions, and their doors
were alike.

12 According to the doors of the
chambers that were towards the south : there
was a door in the head of the way, which
way was before the porch, separated
towards the east as one entereth in.

13 And he said to me: The chambers
of the north, and the chambers of the
south, which are before the separate
building: they are holy chambers, in
which the priests shall eat, that approach
to the Lord into the holy of holies:
there they shall lay the most holy things,
and the offering for sin, and for trespass:
for it is a holy place.

14 And when the priests shall have
entered in, they shall not go out of the
holy places into the outward court: but
there they shall lay their vestments,
wherein they minister, for they are holy:
and they shall put on other garments,
and so they shall go forth to the people.

15 Now when he had made an end of
measuring the inner house, he brought
me out by the way of the gate that
looked toward the east: and he
measured it on every side round about.

16 And he measured toward the east
with the measuring reed, five hundred
reeds with the measuring reed round
about.

17 And he measured toward the north
five hundred reeds with the measuring
reed round about.

18 And towards the south he measured
five hundred reeds with the measuring
reed round about.

19 And toward the west he measured
five hundred reeds, with the measuring
reed.

20 By the four winds he measured the
wall thereof on every side round about,
five hundred cubits long and five
hundred cubits broad, making a separation
between the sanctuary and the place of
the people.

Chapter 43

1 And he brought me to the gate that
looked towards the east.

2 And behold the glory of the God of
Israel came in by the way of the east:
and his voice was like the noise of many
waters, and the earth shone with his
majesty.

3 And I saw the vision according to
the appearance which I had seen when
he came to destroy the city: and the
appearance was according to the vision
which I had seen by the river Chobar:
and I fell upon my face.

4 And the majesty of the Lord went
into the temple by the way of the gate
that looked to the east.

5 And the spirit lifted me up and brought
me into the inner court: and behold the
house was filled with the glory of the
Lord.

6 And I heard one speaking to me out
of the house, and the man that stood by
me,

7 Said to me: Son of man, the place of
my throne, and the place of the soles of
my feet, where I dwell in the midst of
the children of Israel for ever: and the
house of Israel shall no more profane my
holy name, they and their kings by their
fornications, and by the carcasses of their
kings, and by the high places.

8 They who have set their threshold by
my threshold, and their posts by my
posts: and there was but a wall between
me and them: and they profaned my
holy name by the abominations which
they committed: for which reason I
consumed them in my wrath.

9 Now therefore let them put away
their fornications, and the carcasses of
their kings far from me: and I will dwell
in the midst of them for ever.

10 But thou, son of man, shew to the
house of Israel the temple, and let them
be ashamed of their iniquities, and let
them measure the building:

11 And be ashamed of all that they have
done. Shew them the form of the
house, and of the fashion thereof, the
goings out and the comings in, and the
whole plan thereof, and all its ordinances,
and all its order, and all its laws, and
thou shalt write it in their sight: that
they may keep the whole form thereof,
and its ordinances, and do them.

12 This is the law of the house upon the
top of the mountain: All its border round
about is most holy: this then is the law
of the house.

13 And these are the measures of the
altar by the truest cubit, which is a cubit
and a handbreadth: the bottom thereof
was a cubit, and the breadth a cubit: and
the border thereof unto its edge, and
round about, one handbreadth: and this
was the trench of the altar.

14 And from the bottom of the ground
to the lowest brim two cubits, and the
breadth of one cubit: and from the lesser
brim to the greater brim four cubits, and
the breadth of one cubit.

15 And the Ariel itself was four cubits:
and from the Ariel upward were four
horns.

16 And the Ariel was twelve cubits long,
and twelve cubits broad, foursquare, with
equal sides.

17 And the brim was fourteen cubits
long, and fourteen cubits broad in the
four corners thereof: and the crown
round about it was half a cubit, and the
bottom of it one cubit round about: and
its steps turned toward the east.

18 And he said to me: Son of man, thus
saith the Lord God: These are the
ceremonies of the altar, in what day soever
it shall be made: that holocausts may be
offered upon it, and blood poured out.

19 And thou shalt give to the priests,
and the Levites, that are of the race of
Sadoc, who approach to me, saith the
Lord God, to offer to me a calf of the
herd for sin.

20 And thou shalt take of his blood, and
shalt put it upon the four horns thereof,
and upon the four corners of the brim,
and upon the crown round

8bout: and
thou shalt cleanse, and expiate it.

21 And thou shalt take the calf, that is
offered for sin: and thou shalt burn him
in a separate place of the house without
the sanctuary.

22 And in the second day thou shalt
offer a he goat without blemish for sin:
and they shall expiate the altar, as they
expiated it with the calf.

23 And when thou shalt have made an
end of the expiation thereof, thou shalt
offer a calf of the herd without blemish,
and a ram of the flock without blemish.

24 And thou shalt offer them in the
sight of the Lord: and the priests shall
put salt upon them, and shall offer them
a holocaust to the Lord.

25 Seven days shalt thou offer a he goat
for sill daily: they shall offer also a calf
of the herd, and a ram of the flock without
blemish.

26 Seven days shall they expiate the
altar, and shall cleanse it: and they shall
consecrate it.

27 And the days being, expired, on
the eighth day and thenceforward, the
priests shall offer your holocausts upon
the altar, and the peace offerings: and I
will be pacified towards you, saith the
Lord God.

Chapter 44

1 And he brought me back to the way
of the gate of the outward sanctuary,
which looked towards the east: and
it was shut.

2 And the Lord said to me: This gate
shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and
no man shall pass through it: because
the Lord the God of Israel hath entered
in by it, and it shall be shut

3 For the prince. The prince himself
shall sit in it, to eat bread before the
Lord: he shall enter in by the way of
the porch of the gate, and shall go out
by the same way.

4 And he brought me by the way of the
north gate, in the sight of the house:
and I saw, and behold the glory of the
Lord filled the house of the Lord: and I
fell on my face.

5 And the Lord said to me: Son of man,
attend with thy heart, and behold with
thy eyes, and hear with thy ears, all that
I say to thee concerning all the
ceremonies of the house of the Lord, and
concerning all the laws thereof: and
mark well the ways of the temple, with
all the goings out of the sanctuary.

6 And thou shalt say to the house of
Israel that provoketh me: Thus saith the
Lord God: Let all your wicked doings
suffice you, 0 house of Israel:

7 In that you have brought in strangers
uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised
in flesh, to be in my sanctuary, and
to defile my house: and you offer my
bread, the fat, and the blood: and you
have broken my covenant by all your
wicked doings.

8 And you have not kept the ordinances
of my sanctuary: but you have set keepers
of my charge in my sanctuary for
yourselves.

9 Thus saith the Lord God: No stranger
uncircumcised in heart, and uncircumcised
in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary,
no stranger that is in the midst of
the children of Israel.

10 Moreover the Levites that went away
far from me, when the children of Israel
went astray, and have wandered from
me after their idols, and have borne
their iniquity:

11 They shall be officers in my sanctuary,
and doorkeepers of the gates of the
house, and ministers to the house: they
shall slay the holocausts, and the victims
of the people: and they shall stand in
their sight, to minister to them.

12 Because they ministered to them
before their idols, and were a stumblingblock
of iniquity to the house of Israel:
therefore have I lifted up my hand against
them, saith the Lord God, and they shall
bear their iniquity:

13 And they shall not come near to me
to do the office of priest to me, neither
shall they come near to any of my holy
things that are by the holy of holies: but
they shall bear their shame, and their
wickednesses which they have committed.

14 And I will make them doorkeepers
of the house, for all the service thereof,
and for all that shall be done therein.

15 But the priests, and Levites, the sons
of Sadoc, who kept the ceremonies or
my sanctuary, when the children of
Israel went astray from me, they shall
come near to me, to minister to me: and
they shall stand before me, to offer me
the fat, and the blood, saith the Lord
God.

16 They shall enter into my sanctuary,
and they shall come near to my table, to
minister unto me, and to keep my
ceremonies.

17 And when they shall enter in at the
gates of the inner court, they shall be
clothed with linen garments: neither shall
any woollen come upon them, when they
minister in the gates of the inner court
and within.

18 They shall have linen mitres on their
heads, and linen breeches on their loins,
and they shall not be girded with any
thing that causeth sweat.

19 And when they shall go forth to the
outward court to the people, they shall
put off their garments wherein they
ministered, and lay them up in the store
chamber of the sanctuary, and they shall
clothe themselves with other garments:
and they shall not sanctify the people
with their vestments.

20 Neither shall they shave their heads,
nor wear long heir: but they shall only
poll their heads.

21 And no priest shall drink wine when
he is to go into the inner court.

22 Neither shall they take to wife a
widow, nor one that is divorced, but they
shall take virgins of the seed of the house
of Israel: but they may take a widow
also, that is, the widow of a priest.

23 And they shall teach my people the
difference between holy and profane, and
shew them how to discern between clean
and unclean.

24 And when there shall be a controversy,
they shall stand in my judgments,
and shall judge: they shall keep my laws,
and my ordinances in all my solemnities,
and sanctify my sabbaths.

25 And they shall come near no dead
person, lest they be defiled, only their
father and mother, and son and daughter,
and brother and sister, that hath not
had another husband: for whom they
may become unclean.

26 And after one is cleansed, they shall
reckon unto him seven days.

27 And in the day that he goeth into
the sanctuary, to the inner court, to
minister unto me in the sanctuary, he
shall offer for his sin, saith the Lord
God.

28 And they shall have no inheritance,
I am their inheritance: neither shall you
give them any possession in Israel, for I
am their possession.

29 They shall eat the victim both for
sin and for trespass: and every vowed
thing in Israel shall be theirs.

30 And the firstfruits of all the firstborn,
and all the libations of all things
that are offered, shall be the priest's: and
you shall give the firstfruits of your
meats to the priest, that he may return
a blessing upon thy house.

31 The priests shall not eat of any
thing that is dead of itself or caught by a
beast, whether it be fowl or cattle.

Chapter 45

1 And when you shall begin to divide
the land by lot, separate ye firstfruits
to the Lord, a portion of the land
to be holy, in length twenty-five thousand
and in breadth ten thousand: it shall
be holy in all the borders thereof round
about.

2 And there shall be for the sanctuary
on every side five hundred by five
hundred, foursquare round about: and fifty
cubits for the suburbs thereof round
about.

3 And with this measure thou shalt
measure the length of five and twenty
thousand, and the breadth of ten thousand,
and in it shall be the temple and
the holy of holies.

4 The holy portion of the land shall be
for the priests the ministers of the
sanctuary, who come near to the ministry of
the Lord: and it shall be a place for
their houses, and for the holy place of
the sanctuary.

5 And five and twenty thousand of
length, and ten thousand of breadth shall
be for the Levites, that minister in the
house: they shall possess twenty store
chambers.

6 And you shall appoint the possession
of the city five thousand broad, and five
and twenty thousand long, according to
the separation of the sanctuary, for the
whole house of Israel.

7 For the prince also on the one side
and on the other side, according to the
separation of the sanctuary, and according
to the possession of the city, over
against the separation of the sanctuary,
and over against the possession of the
city: from the side of the sea even to
the sea, and from the side of the east;
even to the east. And the length according
to every part from the west border
to the east border.

8 He shall have a portion of the lead in
Israel: and the princes shall no more rob
my people: but they shall give the land
to the house of Israel according to their
tribes:

11 The ephi and the bate shall be equal,
and of one measure: that the bate may
contain the tenth part of a core, and the
ephi the tenth part of a core: their weight
shall be equal according to the measure
of a core.

12 And the sicle hath twenty obols.
Now twenty sides, and five and twenty
sides, and fifteen sides make a mna.

13 And these are the firstfruits, which
you shall take: the sixth part of an ephi
of a core of wheat, and the sixth part of
an ephi of a core of barley.

14 The measure of oil also, a bate of
oil is the tenth part of a core: and ten
bates make a core: for ten bates fill a
core.

15 And one ram out of a flock of two
hundred, of those that Israel feedeth for
sacrifice, and for holocausts, and for
peace offerings, to make atonement for
them, saith the Lord God.

16 All the people of the land shall be
bound to these firstfruits for the prince
in Israel.

17 And the prince shall give the holocaust,
and the sacrifice, and the libations
on the feasts, and on the new moons, and
on the sabbaths, and on all the solemnities
of the house of Israel: he shall offer
the sacrifice for sin, and the holocaust,
and the peace offerings to make expiation
for the house of Israel.

18 Thus saith the Lord God: In the first
month, the first of the month, thou shalt
take a calf of the herd without blemish,
and thou shalt expiate the sanctuary.

19 And the priest shall take of the blood
of the sin offering : and he shall put it on
the posts of the house, and on the four
corners of the brim of the altar, and on
the posts of the gate of the inner court.

20 And so shalt thou do in the seventh
day of the month, for every one that hath
been ignorant, and hath been deceived
by error, and thou shalt make expiation
for the house.

21 In the first month, the fourteenth
day of the month, you shall observe the
solemnity of the pasch: seven days
unleavened bread shall be eaten.

22 And the prince on that day shall offer
for himself, and for all the people of the
land, a calf for sin.

23 And in the solemnity of the seven
days he shall offer for a holocaust to the
Lord, seven calves, and seven rams
without blemish daily for seven days: and for
sin a he goat daily.

24 And he shall offer the sacrifice of an
ephi for every calf, and an ephi for every
ram: and a hin of oil for every ephi.

25 In the seventh month, in the fifteenth
day of the month, in the solemn feast, he
shall do the like for the seven days: as
well in regard to the sin offering, as to
the holocaust, and. the sacrifice, and the

Chapter 46

1 Thus saith the Lord God: The gate of
the inner court that looketh toward
the east, shall be shut the six days, on
which work is done; but on the sabbath
day it shall be opened, yea and on the
day of the new moon it shall be opened.

2 And the prince shall enter by the way
of the porch of the gate from without,
and he shall stand at the threshold of the
gate: and the priests shall offer his
holocaust, and his peace offerings: and he
shall adore upon the threshold of the
gate, and shall go out: but the gate shall
not be shut till the evening.

3 And the people of the land shall adore
at the door of that gate before the Lord
on the sabbaths, and on the new moons.

4 And the holocaust that the prince shall
offer to the Lord on the sabbath day, shall
be six lambs without blemish, and a ram
without blemish.

5 And the sacrifice of an ephi for a ram:
but for the lambs what sacrifice his hand
shall allow: and a hin of oil for every ephi.

6 And on the day of the new moon a
calf of the herd without blemish: and the
six lambs, and the rams shall be without
blemish.

7 And he shall offer in sacrifice an ephi
for a calf, an ephi also for a ram: but for
the lambs, as his hand shall find : and a
hin of oil for every ephi.

8 And when the prince is to go in, let him
go in by the way of the porch of the gate,
and let him go out the same way.

9 But when the people of the land shall
go in before the Lord in the solemn feasts,
he that goeth in by the north gate to
adore, shall go out by the way of the
south gate : and he that; goeth in by the
way of the south gate, shall go out by
the way of the north gate: he shall not
return by the way of the gate whereby
he came in, but shall go out at that over
against it.

10 And the prince in the midst of them,
shall go in when they go in, and go out
when they go out.

11 And in the fairs, and in the solemnities
there shall be the sacrifice of an ephi to
a calf, and an ephi to a ram: and to the
lambs, the sacrifice shall be as his hand
shall find: and a hin of oil to every ephi.

12 But when the prince shall offer a
voluntary holocaust, or voluntary peace
offerings to the Lord : the gate that
looketh towards the east shall be opened to
him, and he shall offer his holocaust, and
his peace offerings, as it is wont to be
done on the sabbath day: and he shall go
out, and the gate shall be shut after he
is gone forth.

13 And he shall offer every day for a
holocaust to the Lord, a lamb of the same
year without blemish: he shall offer it
always in the morning.

14 And he shall offer the sacrifice for it
morning by morning, the sixth part of
ephi: and the third part of a bin of oil
be mingled with the fine hour: a
to the Lord by ordinance continual and
everlasting.

15 He shall offer the lamb, and the
sacrifice, and the oil morning by morning:
an everlasting holocaust.

16 Thus saith the Lord God: If the
prince give a gift to any of his sons:
the inheritance of it shall go to his
children, they shall possess it by inheritance.

17 But if he give a legacy out of his
inheritance to one of his servants, it shall
be his until the year of release, and it
shall return to the prince: but his inheritance
shall go to his sons.

18 And the prince shall not take of the
people's inheritance by violence, nor of
their possession : but out of his own
possession he shall give an inheritance to
his sons: that my people be not dispersed
every man from his possession.

19 And he brought me in by the entry
that was at the side of the gate, into the
chambers of the sanctuary that were for
the priests, which looked toward the
north. And there was a place bending
to the west.

20 And he said to me: This is the place
where the priests shall boil the sin offering,
and the trespass offering: where they
shall dress the sacrifice, that they may
not bring it out into the outward court,
and the people be sanctified.

21 And he brought me into the outward
court, and he led me about by the four
corners of the court: and behold there
was a little court in the corner of the
court, to every corner of the court there
was a little court.

22 In the four corners of the court were
little courts disposed, forty cubits long,
and thirty broad, all the four were of one
measure.

23 And there was a wall round about
compassing the four little courts, and
there were kitchens built under the rows
round about.

24 And he said to me: This is the house
of the kitchens wherein the ministers of
the house of the Lord shall boil the victims
of the people.

Chapter 47

1 And he brought me again to the gate
of the house, and behold waters
issued out from under the threshold of the
house toward the east: for the forefront,
of the house looked toward the east: but
the waters came down to the right side
of the temple to the south part of the
altar.

2 And he led me out by the way of the
north gate, and he caused me to turn to
the way without the outward gate to the
way that looked toward the east: and
behold there ran out waters on the right
side.

3 And when the man that had the line
in his hand went out towards the east,
he measured a thousand cubits: and he
brought me through the water up to the
ankles.

4 And again he measured a thousand,
and he brought me through the water up
to the knees.

5 And he measured a thousand. and he
brought me through the water up to the
loins. And he measured a thousand, and
it was a torrent, which I could not pass
over: for the waters were risen so as to
make a deep torrent, which could not be
passed over.

6 And he said to me: Surely thou hast
seen, O son of man. And he brought me
out, and he caused me to turn to the bank
of the torrent.

7 And when I had turned myself, behold
on the bank of the torrent were very
many trees on both sides.

8 And he said to me: These waters that
issue forth toward the hillocks of sand to
the east, and go down to the plains of the
desert, shall go into the sea, and shall go
out, and the waters shall be healed.

9 And every living creature that creepeth
whithersoever the torrent shall come,
shall live: and there shall be fishes in
abundance after these waters shall come
thither, and they shall be healed, and all
things shall live to which the torrent
shall come.

10 And the fishers shall stand over these
waters, from Engaddi even to Engallim
there shall be drying of nets: there shall
be many sorts of the fishes thereof, as
the fishes of the great sea, a very great
multitude :

11 But on the shore thereof, and in the
fenny places they shall not be healed,
because they shall be turned into saltpits.

12 And by the torrent on the banks
thereof on both sides shall grow all trees
that bear fruit: their leaf shall not fall
off, and their fruit shall not fail: every
month shall they bring forth firstfruits,
because the waters thereof shall issue out
of the sanctuary: and the fruits thereof
shall be for food, and the leaves thereof
for medicine.

13 Thus saith the Lord God: This is the
border, by which you shall possess the
land according to the twelve tribes of
Israel: for Joseph hath a double portion.

14 And you shall possess it, every man
in like manner as his brother:
concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it
to your fathers: and this land shall fall
unto you for a possession.

15 And this is the border of the land:
toward the north side, from the great
sea by the way of Hethalon, as men go
to Sedada,

16 Emath, Berotha, Sabarim, which is
between the border of Damascus and the
border of Emath, the house of Tichon,
which is by the border of Auran.

17 And the border from the sea even to
the court of Enan, shall be the border of
Damascus, and from the north to the
north: the border of Emath, this is the
north side.

18 And the east side is from the midst
of Auran, and from the midst of Damascus,
and from the midst of Galaad, and
from the midst of the land of Israel,
Jordan making the bound to the east sea,
and thus you shall measure the east side.

19 And the south side southward is from
Thamar even to the waters of contradiction
of Cades: and the torrent even to
the great sea: and this is the south side
southward.

20 And the side toward the sea, is the
great sea from the borders straight on,
till thou come to Emath: this is the side
of the sea.

21 And you shall divide this land unto
you by the tribes of Israel:

22 And you shall divide it by lot for an
inheritance to you, and to the strangers
that shall come over to you, that shall
beget children among you: and they
shall be unto you as men of the same
country born among the children of
Israel: they shall divide the possession
with you in the midst of the tribes of
Israel.

23 And in what tribe soever the stranger
shall be, there shall you give him possession,
saith the Lord God.

Chapter 48

1 And these are the names of the tribes
from the borders of the north, by
the way of Hethalon, as they go to
Emath, the court of Enan the border
of Damascus northward, by the way of
Emath. And from the east side thereof
to the sea, shall be one portion for Dan.

2 And by the border of Dan, from the
east side even to the side of the sea, one
portion for Aser:

3 And by the border of Aser, from the
east side even to the side of the sea, one
portion for Nephthali.

4 And by the border of Nephthali, from
the east side even to the side of the sea,
one portion for Manasses.

5 And by the border of Manasses, from
the east side even to the side of the sea,
one portion for Ephraim.

6 And by the border of Ephraim, from
the east side even to the side of the sea,
one portion for Ruben.

7 And by the border of Ruben, from the
east side even to the side of the sea, one
portion for Juda.

8 And by the border of Juda, from the
east side even to the side of the sea, shall
be the firstfruits which you shall set
apart, five and twenty thousand in
breadth, and in length, as every one of
the portions from the east side to the side
of the sea: and the sanctuary shall be in
the midst thereof.

9 The firstfruits which you shall set
apart for the Lord : shall be the length of
five and twenty thousand, and the breadth
of ten thousand.

10 And these shall be the firstfruits of
the sanctuary for the priests: toward the
north five and twenty thousand in length,
and toward the sea ten thousand in
breadth, and toward the east also ten
thousand in breadth, and toward the
south five and twenty thousand in length:
and the sanctuary of the Lord shall be in
the midst thereof.

11 The sanctuary shall be for the priests
of the sons of Sadoc, who kept my
ceremonies, and went not astray when the
children of Israel went astray, as the
Levites also went astray.

12 And for them shall be the firstfruits
of the firstfruits of the land holy of
holies, by the border of the Levites.

13 And the Levites in like manner shall
have by the borders of the priests five
and twenty thousand in length, and ten
thousand in breadth. All the length shall
be five and twenty thousand, and the
breadth ten thousand.

14 And they shall not sell thereof, nor
exchange, neither shall the firstfruits of
the land be alienated, because they are
sanctified to the Lord.

15 But the five thousand that remain in
the breadth over against the five and
twenty thousand, shall be a profane place
for the city for dwelling, and for suburbs:
and the city shall be in the midst
thereof.

16 And these are the measures thereof:
on the north side four thousand and five
hundred: and on the south side four
thousand and five hundred: and on the
east side four thousand and five
hundred: and on the west side four thousand
and five hundred.

17 And the suburbs of the city shall be
to the north two hundred and fifty, and
to the south two hundred and fifty, and
to the east two hundred and fifty, and to
the sea two hundred and fifty.

18 And the residue in length by the
firstfruits of the sanctuary, ten thousand
toward the east, and ten thousand toward
the west, shall be as the firstfruits of the
sanctuary: and the fruits thereof shall
be for bread to them that serve the
city.

19 And they that serve the city, shall
serve it out of all the tribes of Israel.

20 All the firstfruits, of five and twenty
thousand, by five and twenty thousand
foursquare, shall be set apart for the
firstfruits of the sanctuary, and for the
possession of the city.

21 And the residue shall be for the prince
on every side of the firstfruits of the
sanctuary, and of the possession of the
city over against the five and twenty
thousand of the firstfruits unto the east
border: toward the sea also over against
the five and twenty thousand, unto the
border of the sea, shall likewise be the
portion of the prince: and the firstfruits
of the sanctuary, and the sanctuary
of the temple shall be in the midst
thereof.

22 And from the possession of the
Levites, and from the possession of the
city which ale in the midst of the prince's
portions: what shall be to the border of
Juda, and to the border of Benjamin,
shall also belong to the prince.

23 And for the rest of the tribes: from
the east side to the west side, one portion
for Benjamin.

24 And over against the border of
Benjamin, from the east side to the west side,
one portion for Simeon.

25 And by the border of Simeon, from
the east side to the west side, one
portion for Issachar.

26 And by the border of Issachar, from
the east side to the west side, one
portion for Zabulon.

27 And by the border of Zabulon, from
the east side to the side of the sea, one
portion for Gad.

28 And by the border of Gad, the south
side southward: and the border shah be
from Thamar, even to the waters of
contradiction of Cades, the inheritance over
against the great sea.

29 This is the land which you shall
divide by lot to the tribes of Israel: and
these are the portions of them, saith the
Lord God.

30 And these are the goings out of the
city: on the north side thou shalt
measure four thousand and five hundred.

31 And the gates of the city according
to the names of the tribes of Israel, three
gates on the north side, the gate of Ruben
one, the gate of Juda one, the gate of
Levi one.

32 And at the east side, four thousand
and five hundred: and three gates, the
gate of Joseph one, the gate of Benjamin
one, the gate of Dan one.

33 And at the south side, thou shalt
measure four thousand and five hundred:
and three gates, the gate of Simeon one,
the gate of Issachar one, the gate of
Zabulon one.

34 And at the west side, four thousand
and five hundred, and their three gates,
the gate of Gad one, the gate of Aser one,
the gate of Nephthali one.

35 Its circumference was eighteen thousand:
and the name of the city from that
day, The Lord is there.